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So now, after [[Tutorials/Finding rules|coming across a good cellular automata]], you have decided to do something with it — something more significant than random [[soup]] searching and more engaging than automatic [[Tutorials/Software|software]] searching. Then you begin to consider [[signal]] [[circuitry]], the very connection between microscopic evolution and macroscopic construction.
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==What is a signal?==
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A <b>signal</b> is a moving configuration different from its background. In terms of cellular automata, the following [[pattern]]s can carry signals:
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A signal travels through the space at a certain speed, which is an important measure since timing (especially synchronization) decides whether signal circuitry works or not.
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==What do signals do?==
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Signals transform and interact in various ways. A lone signal can be created, [[reflect]]ed and/or flipped, multiplicated, transformed into other signal(s), or [[eater|destroyed]]. Two or more signals react to annihilate or to perform logic operations.
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Signals transform and interact in some special conditions. (incomplete)
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Constructing these building blocks in signal circuitry is quite non-trivial.
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===Signal source===
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===Signal sink and NOT gate===
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===Signal multiplicator===
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===Two-signal logic operations===
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Revision as of 15:59, 21 September 2020

Tutorials/General technology

So now, after coming across a good cellular automata, you have decided to do something with it — something more significant than random soup searching and more engaging than automatic software searching. Then you begin to consider signal circuitry, the very connection between microscopic evolution and macroscopic construction.

What is a signal?

A signal is a moving configuration different from its background. In terms of cellular automata, the following patterns can carry signals:

A signal travels through the space at a certain speed, which is an important measure since timing (especially synchronization) decides whether signal circuitry works or not.

What do signals do?

Signals transform and interact in various ways. A lone signal can be created, reflected and/or flipped, multiplicated, transformed into other signal(s), or destroyed. Two or more signals react to annihilate or to perform logic operations.

Signals transform and interact in some special conditions. (incomplete)

How to find these conditions?

Constructing these building blocks in signal circuitry is quite non-trivial.

Signal source

Signal sink and NOT gate

Signal reflector

Signal multiplicator

Two-signal logic operations

ANDNOT gate

XOR gate

AND gate

OR gate

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