A Novel Perspective in Designing a Low Quantum Cost Synchronous Reversible Counters
Shivangi Gupta, Somesh Kumar · 2020
Reversible circuits are one of the most promising technologies that allow the reproduction of the inputs from the observed outputs and thus reducing the power dissipation in the form of heat. Many basic and universal logic gates i.e. nand, nor, or, and etc. are irreversible and result in energy consumption during calculations. In the reversible technology, like quantum circuits energy is not consumed during the entire calculation process and these circuits can be used for low-power and quantum communication applications circuits. Counters are considered as one of the most important sequential circuits used in many real-time applications. This paper presents a new approach to design a quantum cost-effective reversible up/down counter circuit using exclusive-or sum of product (ESOP) expressions and TR gates. The proposed counter circuits are simulated in the Xilinx Vivado simulator to verify the functionality of the proposed designs. The comparative study indicates that the proposed counters are superior to the best previous designs in terms of quantum cost (QC) and gate count (GC). Moreover, they are very close to or better than the previously available designs in terms of garbage outputs (GO) and Ancilla inputs (AI).