VLSI

11 Basics, Applications, and Design of Reversible Circuits

Robert Wille

Contents

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Basics on Reversible Circuits

11.3 Quantum Computation

11.3.1 General Background

11.3.2 Mapping Reversible Circuits to Quantum Circuits

11.4 Low-Power Design

11.4.1 General Background

11.4.2 Reversible Circuits in the Design of Low-Power Encoders

11.5 Design of Reversible Circuits

11.5.1 Considering the Number of Circuit Lines

11.5.2 Synthesis

11.5.3 Optimization

11.5.4 Verification and Debugging

11.6 Conclusions

References

11.1 Introduction

Great progress has been made in the development of computing machines. Over the last 20–30 years, a design flow was developed that allows for the specification and implementation of circuits and systems ...