Complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology (CMOS) has been faced critical challenges in nano-scale regime. CNTFET (Carbon Nanotube Field effect transistor) technology is a promising alternative for CMOS technology. In this paper, we proposed a novel 7-input minority gate in CNTFET technology that has only 9 CNTFETs. Minority function is utilized in the voting systems for decision making and also it is used in data mining. This proposed 7-input minority gate is utilized less fewer transistors than the conventional CMOS method which utilizes many transistors for implementing sum of products. By means of this proposed 7-input minority gate, a 4-input NAND gate can be implemented, which gets better the conventional design in terms of delay and energy efficiency and has much more deriving power at its output.
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@article{arxiv.1303.2175,
title = {An efficient cntfet-based 7-input minority gate},
author = {Samira Shirinabadi Farahani and Ronak Zarhoun and Mohammad Hossein Moaiyeri and Keivan Navi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2175},
year = {2013}
}