A Reversible CMOS AD / DA Converter Implemented with Pseudo Floating-Gate

Reversible logic is becoming more and more prominent as the technology sets higher demands on heat, power, scaling and stability. Reversible gates are able at any time to "undo" the current step or function. Multiple-valued logic has the advantage of transporting and evaluating higher bits each clock cycle than binary. Moreover, we demonstrate in this paper, combining these disciplines we can construct powerful multiple-valued reversible logic structures. In this paper a reversible block implemented by pseudo floatinggate can perform AD-function and a DA-function as its reverse application.

Authors:

• Omid Mirmotahari
• Yngvar Berg
• Ahmad Habibizad Navin

Keywords:

• Reversible logic
• bi-directional
• Pseudo floating-gate(PFG)
• multiple-valued logic (MVL).

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