Title :
Advancing from two to four valued logic circuits
Author_Institution :
Louisiana Tech Univ., Ruston, LA, USA
Abstract :
To further increase the speed of computation, this paper proposed to increase from binary to four-valued logic circuits. Four-valued logic circuits allow each wire to carry two bits at a time, each logic gate to operate two bits at a time, and each memory cell to record two bits at a time. The speed of communication between devices is also increased due to the increase in bandwidth of each wire. To make the base-four computations possible, this paper described the design and implementation of four-valued logic gates, memory cells, and flip-flops. To allow for future developments, the design of the memory cell and the flip-flop provided in this paper can be extended to be used for infinite-valued or Fuzzy logic circuits, for fully exploiting many-valued logics and fuzzy paradigms in hardware.
Keywords :
flip-flops; integrated circuit design; logic gates; multivalued logic circuits; base-four computations; binary logic circuits; flip-flops; four-valued logic circuits; fuzzy logic circuits; infinite-valued logic circuits; logic gate; many-valued logics; memory cell design; two-valued logic circuits; Central Processing Unit; Clocks; Equations; Flip-flops; Fuzzy logic; Logic circuits; Logic gates;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4567-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4568-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505818