Novel reversible division hardware

Abstract

This paper presents a novel design of sequential division circuit using reversible logic, which is a promising research area nowadays. The proposed hardware has its application in the design of reversible arithmetic logic unit. In order to show the efficiency, lower bounds of the proposed design are shown in terms of number of gates required, garbage outputs produced and quantum cost needed. As far as it is known, this is the first attempt to apply reversible logic to implement division hardware. As the works in the field of reversible logic has only started to bloom, the contribution of this paper will engender a new thread of research in the field of reversible division circuit.