Design of BCD adder with five input majority gate for QCA

Abstract In the digital world BCD numbers play a pivotal role in constituting decimal numbers. New different technologies are emerging in order to obtain low area/power/delay factors to replace the CMOS technology. One such technology is quantum cellular automata (QCA) realization, through which many arithmetic circuits can be designed. This paper deals with the implementation of BCD adder with 5 input majority gates for QCA. The 3 input majority gate and an inverter are basic elements of QCA. In this project amalgamation of majority gates with 3 and 5 inputs are used instead of implementing the entire circuit using 3 input majority gate in the BCD i.e. mainly comprised by partly consumed gates and entirely consumed gates. The proposed is designed and functional verification is done by Verilog HDL and Modelsim version 10.4a. The proposed design has been verified and the delay of existing and proposed design is analysed using Xilinx tool. The numbers of partly consumed and entirely consumed gates are less when compared to the existing method of implementation. The delay is reduced compared to the existing system which shows the improvement of 9.84%. The drawback of crossovers that leads the difficulty in implementation and reduces the efficiency of the circuit is reduced in the proposed implementation.