Date Available
4-28-2017
Year of Publication
2017
Degree Name
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Engineering
Department/School/Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Dr. Himanshu Thapliyal
Abstract
Since its inception, Moore's Law has been a reliable predictor of computational power. This steady increase in computational power has been due to the ability to fit increasing numbers of transistors in a single chip. A consequence of increasing the number of transistors is also increasing the power consumption. The physical properties of CMOS technologies will make this powerwall unavoidable and will result in severe restrictions to future progress and applications. A potential solution to the problem of rising power demands is to investigate alternative low power nanotechnologies for implementing logic circuits. The intrinsic properties of these emerging nanotechnologies result in them being low power in nature when compared to current CMOS technologies. This thesis specifically highlights quantum dot celluar automata (QCA) and nanomagnetic logic (NML) as just two possible technologies. Designs in NML and QCA are explored for simple arithmetic units such as full adders and subtractors. A new multilayer 5-input majority gate design is proposed for use in NML. Designs of reversible adders are proposed which are easily testable for unidirectional stuck at faults.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2017.147
Recommended Citation
Labrado, Carson, "Exploration of Majority Logic Based Designs for Arithmetic Circuits" (2017). Theses and Dissertations--Electrical and Computer Engineering. 102.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ece_etds/102
