Efficient Synthesis of Reversible Circuits Using Quantum Dot Cellular Automata

Abstract

Heat dissipation is one of the major problems in the construction of electronic devices. Reversible computing is one of the emerging computing paradigms to overcome heat dissipation problem. One of the nanoscale devices that has low power consumption and can be used to construct digital logic components is quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA). In this paper, the benefits of reversible computing of QCA will be used to propose QCA designs for two main reversible gates, the CNOT and the TOFFOLI gates. The proposed CNOT gate has been used to design QCA for double CNOT gate to show its reversibility, and QCA design for the SWAP circuit that contains 3 CNOT gates. The suggested TOFFOLI gate is utilized to construct QCA for double TOFFOLI gate and a reversible circuit which consists of several reversible gates. The suggested QCA designs for double CNOT, double TOFFOLI and reversible circuits such as SWAP circuit have been proposed by adding cells with certain clocks to the wires that connects the proposed gates. The proposed QCA designs show better cell count, area used in the construction, number of majority gate, wire crossover, and/or clock cycle delay when compared with relevant designs in literature.