Energy efficient code converters using reversible logic gates

Abstract

In this technological world development in the field of nanometer technology leads to minimize the power consumption of logic circuits. Reversible logic design has been one of the promising technologies gaining greater interest due to less dissipation of heat and low power consumption. In digital systems code conversion is a widely used process for reasons such as enhancing security of data, reducing the complexity of arithmetic operations and thereby reducing the hardware required, dropping the level of switching activity leading to more speed of operation and power saving etc. This paper proposes novel Reversible logic design for code conversion such as Binary to Gray code, Gray to Binary code, BCD to Excess 3 code, Excess 3 to BCD code.