Multiple-Controlled Toffoli and Multiple-Controlled Fredkin Reversible Logic Gates-Based Reversible Synchronous Counter Design

Abstract

The counters that change their transition using a clock signal are called synchronous counters. While designing a synchronous counter circuit, the power consumption and the delay are the major issues. Several synchronous counters were designed previously with the help of flip flops, but they did not provide good results. The existing synchronous counters increased power consumption and delay and decreased the speed. To overcome these issues, in this manuscript, a reversible synchronous counter is designed utilizing Multiple-Controlled Toffoli (MCT) and Multiple-Controlled Fredkin (MCF) reversible logic gates. Here, three JK flip-flop designs, such as JK1, JK2, and JK3 are designed for a reversible synchronous counter. Then JK1 and JK2 are structured by MCT. Whereas the JK3 flip-flop design is designed under MCF reversible logic gates. Coding is carried out Verilog, and then the proposed Reversible synchronous counter design (RSCD) is synthesized and implemented on FPGA using a Xilinx ISE 14.5 System generator. Here, performance metrics, such as delay, power, maximum counting rate, and total equivalent gate counts are examined. The efficiency of the proposed RSCD-MCT-MCF design attains gate counts of 23.45%, 28.94%, and 29.04% and is compared to the existing designs, such as Effective Designing of Reversible Synchronous Counters in Nanoscale (SCD-MTG), effective designing for reversible sequential circuits (SCD-3TG-4FG), designing of synchronous decimal counter utilizing reversible Toffoli–FredkinNetlist (SCD-TOF2).