A Novel Design and Evaluation of a Low Power Efficient Fault-Tolerant Reversible ALU Using QCA: Applications of Nanoelectronics
Mary Swarna Latha Gade, S. Rooban · Research Square · 2021
Abstract Reversible logic based on Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is the most requirement for achieving nano-scale architecture that promises significantly high device integration density, high-speed calculation, and low power consumption. The arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is the significant component of a processor for processing and computing. The primary objective of this work is to develop a multi-layer fault-tolerant arithmetic logic unit using reversible logic in QCA technology. Additionally, the reversible ALU has divided into arithmetic (RAU) and a logic unit (RLU). A reversible 2:1 MUX using the Fredkin gate has been implemented to select either the arithmetic or logical operations. Besides, to improve the efficiency of arithmetic operations, a novel QCA reversible full adder is implemented. To build the ALU, fault-tolerant reversible logic gates are used. The proposed reversible multilayer QCA ALU is designed to carry out eight arithmetic and sixteen logical operations with a minimum number of gates, constant inputs, and garbage outputs compared to the existing works. The functional verification and simulation of the presented circuits are assessed by the QCADesigner tool.