A High-Performance Design of Generalized Pipeline Cellular Array
Zhufei Chu, Huiming Tian, Zeqiang Li, Yinshui Xia, Lunyao Wang · IEEE Computer Architecture Letters · 2020
In this letter, we proposed a high-performance quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) design of generalized pipeline cellular array (GPCA). The GPCA can perform all the basic arithmetic operations using only one arithmetic cell. Due to its flexibility, the high-performance GPCA design is of high interest for large-scale QCA designs. We proposed both the arithmetic unit and control unit designs of GPCA using a hybrid logic network that represented by majority-of-three (MAJ), inverter (NOT), and three-input exclusive-OR (XOR3). The introduction of XOR3operation can significantly reduce the number of gates, levels, and wire-crossings, which in turn results in less area and fewer clock cycles of QCA layout. Experiments show that we can achieve both area and latency improvements of n-bit (n = 3,4,5) GPCA designs compared with the-state-of-art.