Partially reversible pipelined QCA circuits: combining power and throughput

This paper introduces an architecture for quantumdot cellular automata (QCA) systems with the potential for high throughput and low power dissipation. The combination of regions with Bennett clocking and of regions used for memory storage combines the low power advantages of reversible computing and the high throughput advantages of pipelining. A simple case study is employed to evaluate the proposed pipelined architecture in terms of throughput and power consumption due to information dissipation.