Bayero Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

A review on reversible logic gates

Bahijja Yahaya Galadima, Garba Shehu Musa Galadanci, Tijjani Abdulrazak, M. Ibrahim

Published Apr 15, 2020• 7 citations

Abstract

In recent years, reversible logic circuits have applications in the emerging field of digital signal processing, optical information processing, quantum computing and nano technology. Reversibility plays an important role when computations with minimal energy dissipation are considered. The main purpose of designing reversible logic is to decrease the number of reversible gates, garbage outputs, constant inputs, quantum cost, area, power, delay and hardware complexity of the reversible circuits. This paper reveals a comparative review on various reversible logic gates. This paper provides some reversible logic gates, which can be used in designing more complex systems having reversible circuits and can execute more complicated operations using quantum computers. Future digital technology will use reversible logic gates in order to reduce the power consumption and propagation delay as it effectively provides negligible loss of information in the circuit. Keywords: Garbage output, Power dissipation, quantum cost, Reversible Gate, Reversible logic,

DOI: 10.4314/bajopas.v12i1.38s

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