Performance Improvement of QCA Design XOR Logic Gate Using Bistable Simulation Engine Vector
Performance Improvement of QCA Design XOR Logic Gate Using Bistable Simulation Engine Vector
ABSTRACT
Among the emerging technologies recently proposed contains two electrons and four quantum dots and due
as alternatives to the CMOS technology, the quantum
quantum- to Coulomb interaction between these identical
dot cellular automata is one of the promising solutions charges, they occupy dots diagonally. As a result, the
to design very high speed and ultralow power digital two stable polarization states for a QCA cell are
circuits. In this paper we used QCA Designer achieved, as shown in Figure 1. 1 The instantaneous
simulator
imulator tool for simulation of the proposed XOR polarization of a cell is denoted as either -1 or +1 [2],
design. The QCA Designer tools used to simulate the which are encoded to represent a binary “1” value and
circuits and calculate the area as well as number of “0” value, respectively. In order to create any digital
cells. logic, basic elements including wire, NOT gate, AND
gate, OR gate and majority gate g are required to
Keyword: QCA, XOR, Majority Gate, QCA Cells, implement that logic [1, 3]. Since no electrons tunnel
Bistable Simulation Engine. between cells, QCA provides a mechanism for
transferring information without current flow [6].
I. INTRODUCTION
QCA is a computational nanotechnology that can be
used to construct nano-scale
scale circuits. Nowadays, this
technology is a popular alternative for CMOS
technology due to features such as speed, low
occupied area and low power consumption [1]. The
many technologies have been investigated such as
Carbon Nano Tube field effect transistors
(CNTFETs), Single electron transistors (SETs), Fig.1: Basic QCA cell with two binary state [7]
Quantum-dotdot cellular automata (QCA) and others.
QCA is a promising technology supporting a The Majority voter (M),, five QCA cells that realize
transistor-less paradigm. This QCA technology has the function of in equation 1, and its QCA design is
quantum cells. The quantum cells has 2 electrons shown in figure 2.
present at a time, has 4 quantum wells and 2 electrons
are occupies in adjacent position to each other. The , ,
1
rest of paper is organised in section A.1 is QCA
building blocks, II-Sectiontion QCA clock diagram
dissection, Section-III
III Simulation design and results
and last section IV is conclusion and references at the
last of paper.
, , , 0 .
2
Fig. 3:: AND Logic Gate using QCA Cells Fig. 5: QCA Clock [7]