In this paper we investigate single electron tunneling (SET) devices from the logic design perspective, using the SET tunnel junction’s ability to control the transport of individual electrons. More in particular, we investigate the behavior of a family of single electron encoded logic (SEEL) gates, consisting of a 2-input AND gate, a 2-input OR gate and a NOT gate, and simulate the gates. A ch...

In modern computers, computation is performed by assembling together sets of logic gates. Popular gates like AND, OR and XOR, processing two logic inputs and yielding one logic output, are often addressed as irreversible logic gates, where the sole knowledge of the output logic value is not sufficient to infer the logic value of the two inputs. Such gates are usually believed to be bounded to d...

This paper describes various techniques to reduce the number of logic gates needed to implement the DES S-boxes in bitslice software. Using standard logic gates, an average of 56 gates per S-box was achieved, while an average of 51 was produced when non-standard gates were utilized. This is an improvement over the previous best result, which used an average of 61 non-standard gates.

Probabilistic-based methods have been used for designing noise tolerant circuits recently. In these methods, however, there is not any reliability mechanism that is essential for nanometer digital VLSI circuits. In this paper, we propose a novel method for designing reliable probabilistic-based logic gates. The advantage of the proposed method in comparison with previous probabilistic-based met...

Phased logic is a synthesis/mapping methodology that allows a standard clocked netlist (combinational gates + DFFs) to be automatically mapped to a non-clocked netlist that uses special gates called phased logic gates. The new netlist has no clock networks and the only required global signal is a power-on reset. We demonstrate the viability of the phased logic approach via the synthesis and sim...