Soheil Sarmadi; Saeid Azimi; Shadi Sheikhfaal; Shaahin Angizi

Designing Counter Using Inherent Capability of Quantum-dot Cellular Automata Loops

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Author(s)

Soheil Sarmadi ^1,* Saeid Azimi ² Shadi Sheikhfaal ³ Shaahin Angizi ³

1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

2. Faculty of Computer and Information Technology Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

3. Nanotechnology and Quantum Computing Laboratory, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., Tehran, Iran

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2015.09.03

Received: 12 Jun. 2015 / Revised: 15 Jul. 2015 / Accepted: 10 Aug. 2015 / Published: 8 Sep. 2015

Index Terms

Nanoelectronics, Quantum-dot Cellular Automata, Counter Design, QCA loop

Abstract

Quantum-dot cellular automata presents a promising Nano-scale technology for replacement of conventional CMOS-based circuits. According to the significant role of counters in computing units, designing diverse types of counter circuits has attracted many attentions, so far. This paper presents a QCA-compatible single layer architecture for 4-bit counter circuit, however by generalizing the main idea, n-bit counter can be engendered in a similar way. The proposed circuit is designed without employing conventional flip-flops’ structures by allotting the distinct clock cycles to each counting unit. The comparison results with the best-reported structure reveal the superiority of our design in terms of circuit complexity and required layers for accessing to input and output cells. The proper output waveforms obtained by the QCADesigner tool proves the precise functionality of the proposed counter.

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Soheil Sarmadi, Saeid Azimi, Shadi Sheikhfaal, Shaahin Angizi, "Designing Counter Using Inherent Capability of Quantum-dot Cellular Automata Loops", International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS), vol.7, no.9, pp.22-28, 2015. DOI:10.5815/ijmecs.2015.09.03

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