Design for testability of Reversible Logic Circuits

In modern technologies, management of energy loss is an important issue in digital logic design for both the manufacturer and the customer. A part of energy dissipation may occur because of nonideality of switches or devices. With the exponential growth of packing density, the traditional technologies like CMOS are reaching to a limit. So some alternative technology is required to overcome from this stagnancy. Reversible logic may provide a potential solution of such problems. Reversible logic has many applications in several technologies, such as optical computing, digital signal processing, cryptography, low-power CMOS design, in thermodynamics and adiabatic CMOS. Reversible circuits play an important role in quantum computing, which one of the most is promising emerging technologies. One of the emerging research areas in quantum computing involves synthesis and testing of reversible logic circuits. In this thesis, we have studied several fault models and testing methods for reversible logic circuits.