Trinity

Last Updated - 01/07/2018

Trinity was my first test of making a computer in Minecraft. It was the result of several iterations of a design for an ALU, and took a long time to make, as at the time I was not particularly knowledgeable about the lowest level of computer internals. It is about as minimal as you can get, and is absolutely not turing-complete. It was more of just a test of how the theory could work.

Features:

8/4 bit bus width (4 bit instruction, 4 bit data)
0.15 Hz Clock
2 instructions: ADD, JMP
2 bytes of memory

The full computer

The ALU

The ALU is very simple in Trinity, as it only has an add function. This is made with the binary adders, shown in purple.

The memory

The memory uses D type flip-flops, which are made with redstone torches and repeaters.

The program counter

The program counter is a 4 bit D flip-flop, used to store the current program location. The circuit behind it increments the program counter to advance the program.

I am under no illusions that this was a terrible computer in many ways, but it was just a first attempt to try and help familiarise myself with concepts

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