THATTE-OS: A Balanced Ternary HAL, Kernel Interface, and Microkernel Architecture for T3ISA Processors

Overview

A microkernel operating system designed for balanced ternary hardware. Features three privilege domains (kernel/supervisor/user mapped to trit states), a modulo-3 round-robin scheduler, 27-entry interrupt vector table, syscall interface, and a 4-entry ternary status register.

THATTE-OS is compiled to .t3b binaries totalling 72 KB across 8 modules: boot, init, scheduler, interrupt handler, process manager, syscall interface, memory manager, and I/O subsystem. It represents the first operating system designed from the ground up for balanced ternary processors.

Key Claims

The patent protects the following system innovations:

• A microkernel architecture with three privilege domains mapped to trit states (-1, 0, +1)
• A modulo-3 round-robin scheduler for ternary process management
• A 27-entry interrupt vector table for balanced ternary interrupt handling
• A 4-entry ternary status register for processor state management
• A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and syscall interface for T3ISA processors
• An 8-module microkernel compiled to balanced ternary .t3b binaries

Layer in the Stack

System Software. THATTE-OS sits above the hardware layer (P1, P6, P7) and compiler (P4), providing the runtime environment for applications. It uses TritFS (P8) as its native filesystem.

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