compact but slow Hex memory

[minestyler007]

I was experimenting with comparators and 1 tick signals. They are quite buggy but you can force comparators to work with 1 tick signals and I created memory wich is 1 tick serial and consists of four comparators sending signals in a circle. That means you can store 4 hex values in these four comparators.

Problem is that you can only read and write data every 4 ticks and have to know what time has passed since the input. 

I managed to build a read and write system with hex decoders because they are more compact and i didnt manage to build binary decoders. it is very compact as it uses 38 x 21 x 18 blocks for 128 hex values and it is diagonal and double density. one problem is the signal in- and output because you have to keep the signal strength which makes it quite a bit slower.
I'll try to add pictures of it but my internet is superbad atm.
The pictures are without the in and ouputs because it looks very shitty and is something that probably has to be changed. 

I think this can't be used as RAM but could be a great way to store great amounts of information in a small area and it actually can give out a value every tick so it might be good as a SSD or something like that

[minestyler007]

http://imgur.com/a/fgUq7

the first picture shows 16 x 2 cells

the second picture shows 2 cells next to each other they can be stacked 16 times.

each cell consists of 4 hex values so together it is 512 bits of information

[MW3_587786]

noice

[Apocryphan]

cool, how do you plan to pull it at the right part of the signal? external clock or internal value?

[minestyler007]

dont really know becasue I had issues with the 1 tick pulses going in there and getting the signal out of there is really hard too

[Apocryphan]

yea, its tricky to get 1 ticks to work, and if you do, don't plan on moving it or else it will cease to work and cause you to go into a blind rage and break your monitor. 1 of the biggest issues is using the fast hex wire w/ repeaters will change it to a true 1 tick, which won't go back into a comparator, its almost better to use parallel wires with 2 tick pulses and then reduce them to a 1 tick and interlace them into the memory.

[Apocryphan]

here is something similar, i did 1 tick pulses with a 1 tick pause between them on 2 wires and then overlapped them onto 1 wire to get 4 values in 4 ticks.



the only problem was finding a 1 tick implies gate that didn't use comparators. i made one that would work if you used the parallel comparator wires and combined them at the decoder though.



so if you wanna combine our powers and make this a reality sometime, i'm down.

[Apocryphan]

I love 1 tick hex...

[minestyler007]

yeah would be really cool to do it together