Synthesis, testing and tolerance in reversible logic

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2017
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Nashiry, Md Asif
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
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Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Sciences
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In recent years, reversible computing has established itself as a promising research area and emerging technology. This thesis focuses on three important areas of reversible logic, which is an area of reversible computing. Firstly, this thesis proposes a transformation based synthesis approach for realizing conservative reversible functions using SWAP and Fredkin gates. This thesis also proposes ten templates for optimizing SWAP and Fredkin gates-based reversible circuits. Secondly, this thesis proposes an approach for the design of online testable reversible circuits. A reversible circuit composed of NOT, CNOT and Toffoli gates can be made online testable by adding two sets of CNOT gates and a single parity line. Finally, we have proposed an approach to achieve fault tolerance in reversible circuits. A design of a 3-bit reversible majority voter circuit is presented. This voter circuit can be used to design fault tolerant reversible circuits.
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Reversible computing , Dissertations, Academic
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