Design of quantum cost efficient reversible multiplier using Reed-Muller expressions

Abstract

Reversible logic design is one of the emerging trends in recent years as it is good for low power design. A good number of design methods for reversible multipliers were proposed earlier. In this paper, two bit reversible multiplier was designed using Reed-Muller expressions, and this new reversible multiplier was used to design 4-bit reversible multiplier. The results save 16.9% of quantum cost QC, 38.5% of garbage outputs GOs and 10.7% of constant inputs CIs compared to earlier designs. The simulations are done on Xilinx 10.1 and are presented. The methodology is extended for the design of 8-bit and 16-bit multipliers and the reversible logic metrics were presented for different bit lengths.