Efficient reversible logic design of BCD subtractors

Himanshu Thapliyal, Hamid R. Arabnia, M. B. Srinivas

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Abstract

Reversible logic is emerging as a promising computing paradigm, having its applications in low-power CMOS, quantum computing, nanotechnology and optical computing. Firstly, we showed a modified design of conventional BCD subtractors and also proposed designs of carry look-ahead and carry skip BCD subtractors. The proposed designs of carry look-ahead and carry skip BCD subtractors are based on the novel designs of carry look-ahead and carry skip BCD adders, respectively. Then, we introduced the reversible logic implementation of the modified conventional, as well as the proposed, carry look-ahead and carry skip BCD subtractors efficient in terms of the number of reversible gates used and garbage output produced. To the best of our knowledge, the carry look-ahead and carry skip BCD subtractors and their reversible logic design are explored for the first time ever in literature.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-121
Number of pages23
JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5300 LNCS
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Keywords

  • BCD adders
  • BCD subtractors
  • Reversible logic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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