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Variable Block Carry Skip Logic using Reversible Gates

Hardware Architecture 2010-08-20 v1

Abstract

Reversible circuits have applications in digital signal processing, computer graphics, quantum computation and cryptography. In this paper, a generalized k*k reversible gate family is proposed and a 3*3 gate of the family is discussed. Inverter, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, and EXOR gates can be realized by this gate. Implementation of a full-adder circuit using two such 3*3 gates is given. This full-adder circuit contains only two reversible gates and produces no extra garbage outputs. The proposed full-adder circuit is efficient in terms of gate count, garbage outputs and quantum cost. A 4-bit carry skip adder is designed using this full-adder circuit and a variable block carry skip adder is discussed. Necessary equations required to evaluate these adder are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1008.3352,
  title  = {Variable Block Carry Skip Logic using Reversible Gates},
  author = {Md. Rafiqul Islam and Md. Saiful Islam and Muhammad Rezaul Karim and Abdullah Al Mahmud and Hafiz Md. Hasan Babu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.3352},
  year   = {2010}
}

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4 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables

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