Exploring ECA Rules With Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
Bhumika Sikdar, Rajagopal Kabilan, Mousumi Saha · 2022
The Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is considered to be the emerging nanotechnology for future logic design. Logic implementations with QCA now become the most promising area of research. Further, the inherent cellular structure of QCA can be a natural choice for QCA implementation of Cellular Automata (CA), the computing tool that can perform universal computation. This work proposes realization of elementary CA (ECA) rules in QCA structures. The target is to design the CA based solutions for future QCA designs. It is developed around the QCA tiles and the majority/minority gates. The QCA structures thus implementing a set of ECA rules employed for cache coherence protocol processor design, memory testing and other applications are simulated in QCADesigner for verification.