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<p>Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a rival to complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-based technology and one of the most cutting-edge nano-scale technologies. The multiplexer is a fundamental component in the fields of nano communication and nano computation. The investigative item of this article is the QCA multiplexer, and a handful of the best multiplexers were chosen as samples for the current experiment. The QCA layouts were designed in the QCADesigner-2.0.3 simulation engine environment, and the best one was reported after successfully experimenting on a total of eight samples. The co-ordinate-based energy was estimated using QCADesigner-E (QDE), and the non-adiabatic energy waste was investigated using QCAPro. According to the coordinates-based technique, the overall energy waste of the best energy-saving QCA multiplexer is 5.90 meV, with an average energy loss per cycle of 0.537 meV. Another approach, QCAPro-based, was used to estimate the energy loss at three different levels of tunneling at a constant temperature, yielding an overall energy loss of approximately 12 to 15 meV for the energy-efficient multiplexers..</p>
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Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a rival to complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-based technology and one of the most cutting-edge nano-scale technologies. The multiplexer is a fundamental component in the fields of nano communication and nano computation. The investigative item of this article is the QCA multiplexer, and a handful of the best multiplexers were chosen as samples for the current experiment. The QCA layouts were designed in the QCADesigner-2.0.3 simulation engine environment, and the best one was reported after successfully experimenting on a total of eight samples. The co-ordinate-based energy was estimated using QCADesigner-E (QDE), and the non-adiabatic energy waste was investigated using QCAPro. According to the coordinates-based technique, the overall energy waste of the best energy-saving QCA multiplexer is 5.90 meV, with an average energy loss per cycle of 0.537 meV. Another approach, QCAPro-based, was used to estimate the energy loss at three different levels of tunneling at a constant temperature, yielding an overall energy loss of approximately 12 to 15 meV for the energy-efficient multiplexers..

Energy estimation of QCA circuits: An investigation with multiplexers

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Department of Electronics and Communication

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Journal of Electrical Engineering

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Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a rival to complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-based technology and one of the most cutting-edge nano-scale...

Energy estimation of QCA circuits: An investigation with multiplexers

Publié en ligne: 22 sept. 2022

Pages: 276 - 283

Reçu: 06 août 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2022-0036

Mots clés
energy estimation, multiplexer, QCA circuits, QCADesigner, QCADesigner-E, QCAPro

© 2022 Angshuman Khan et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Energy estimation of QCA circuits: An investigation with multiplexers

Publié en ligne: 22 sept. 2022

Pages: 276 - 283

Reçu: 06 août 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2022-0036

Mots clésenergy estimation, multiplexer, QCA circuits, QCADesigner, QCADesigner-E, QCAPro

© 2022 Angshuman Khan et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
energy estimation, multiplexer, QCA circuits, QCADesigner, QCADesigner-E, QCAPro