Towards a Design Flow for Reversible Logic

2010. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-9578-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1010 g

The development of computing machines found great success in the last decades. But the ongoing miniaturization of integrated circuits will reach its limits in the near future. Shrinking transistor sizes and power dissipation are the major barriers in the development of smaller and more powerful circuits. Reversible logic p- vides an alternative that may overcome many of these problems in the future. For low-power design, reversible logic offers signi?cant advantages since zero power dissipation will only be possible if computation is reversible. Furthermore, quantum computation pro?ts from enhancements in this area, because every quantum circuit is inherently reversible and thus requires reversible descriptions. However, since reversible logic is subject to certain restrictions (e.g. fanout and feedback are not directly allowed), the design of reversible circuits signi?cantly differs from the design of traditional circuits. Nearly all steps in the design ?ow (like synthesis, veri?cation, or debugging) must be redeveloped so that they become applicable to reversible circuits as well. But research in reversible logic is still at the beginning. No continuous design ?ow exists so far. Inthisbook,contributionstoadesign?owforreversiblelogicarepresented.This includes advanced methods for synthesis, optimization, veri?cation, and debugging.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wille, Robert

Drechsler, Rolf

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Bauelemente, Schaltkreise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preliminaries.- Synthesis of Reversible Logic.- Exact Synthesis of Reversible Logic.- Embedding of Irreversible Functions.- Optimization.- Formal Verification and Debugging.- Summary and Conclusions.