Hamming code converter using reversible toffoli netlist

Abstract

Technological advancements in the last two decades have witnessed a plethora of emerging technologies gaining global research attention. One of them is reversible logic due to its capability to arrest tremendous amount of heat generated in modern digital conversions at the architecture level. With CMOS reaching near capping of threshold parameters, researchers are imperatively exploring the reversible domain for possible alternatives. Telecommunication is one area which expects appreciable share of digital resources. This communication proposes the reversible version of Hamming Code converter, decoder, and Corrector unit. Hamming codes form one of the perfect codes attaining the Hamming Bound. The designs have been implemented using Toffoli Netlist. A state-of-the-art four variable reversible gate in literature has been used to design the high level schematic for part of the proposals. The authors provide the results in terms of primitive Quantum Metrics.