Design of a Novel Reversible Multiplier Circuit Using HNG Gate in Nanotechnology

Reversible logic circuits are of interests to power minimization having applications in low power CMOS design, optical information processing, DNA computing, bioinformatics, quantum computing and nanotechnology. In this paper we propose a novel 4x4 bit reversible multiplier circuit. The proposed reversible multiplier is faster and has lower hardware complexity compared to the existing counterparts. It is also better than the existing counterparts in term of number of gates, garbage outputs and constant inputs. Haghparast and Navi recently proposed a 4x4 reversible gate called "HNG". The reversible HNG gate can work singly as a reversible full adder. In this paper we use HNG gates to construct the reversible multiplier circuit. The proposed reversible multiplier circuit using HNG gate can multiply two 4-bits binary numbers. The proposed reversible 4x4 multiplier circuit can be generalized for NxN bit multiplication. We can use it to construct more complex systems in nanotechnology.