Realization of Incompletely Specified Reversible Functions Manjith Kumar Ying Wang Natalie Metzger Bala Iyer Marek Perkowski Portland Quantum Logic Group Portland State University, Oregon RM 2007, Oslo, Norway

Objectives To improve the capabilities of the original Miller-Maslov-Dueck algorithm (MMD): 1)to synthesize incompletely specified multi- output functions as reversible circuits 2) to synthesize non-reversible Boolean functions by converting them to reversible functions

Don’t Care Algorithm for Reversible Logic (DCARL) Step 1: Assign values to the “don't cares” outputs, and map the outputs according to the assigned input values, creating thus a completely specified reversible Boolean function specification. Step 2: Apply the MMD algorithm to this specification to synthesize the network. Step 3: Compare the cost in terms of the number of Toffoli gates and keep track of the “don't cares” values with the minimal cost. Backtrack to find K solutions or until no more backtracking is possible.

DCARL collaborates with MMD to find the solution

The Code-How It works. Pseudo code: For each of the output with don’t cares (e.g. 10xx10x) { for set of all don’t care’s (i.e. “xxx”) { assign_values_for_don’t_cares; } if (find_conflict) { try the next assignment; } Backtrack_and_reassign_for_N_solutions() ;

Capabilities of the system 1.It can accept any reversible function with don’t cares as input and produce a fully specified reversible output. 2. It can accept any non reversible function and give a reversible output. 3. Functions with fewer outputs than inputs can also be accepted. 4. Capable of running in sync with the standard MMD code. 5. Makes use of cost function in the standard MMD code to compare solutions. 6. The number of solutions needed can be configured.

Limitations of the system Huge complexity in worst case input scenarios limits the number of solutions possible. Very fast for small number of variables (n). But slows down considerably for n>10. Complete backtracking is not feasible for large number of don’t cares. So the code is optimized to give a limited number of solutions.

Truth Table of the initial specification of the incompletely specified 3*3 function Example

Function creation – intermediate steps S1 – S5 000 cannot be selected

Function creation – intermediate steps S6 – S cannot be selected 100 cannot be selected 101 cannot be selected

Function creation – intermediate steps S11 – S cannot be selected 001 cannot be selected Backtrack and try counting from zero again Backtrack and try counting from last used value

Function creation – intermediate steps S16 – S cannot be selected

Function creation – intermediate steps S21 – S cannot be selected 101 cannot be selected 000 cannot be selected

Function creation – intermediate steps S25 – S cannot be selected Backtrack, start from next value 010 cannot be selected Backtrack, start from next value

Function creation – intermediate steps S30 – S cannot be selected 100 cannot be selected

Function creation – intermediate steps S35 – S cannot be selected 000 cannot be selected 001 can be assigned and table is successfully completed

Original incomplete reversible function versus final complete reversible function after DCARL

Example of non-reversible initial function: Full Adder Inputs x,y,z Outputs c,s

The first 10 solutions to full adder: Inputs (xyz) in decimal Reversible outputs O1O2o3 o4o5o o XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX

Sample Solution: A circuit with size=17 and Cost=17

This is not the minimum solution!! But a good starting point for minimization.

DCARL Testing 6-bit and 9-bit randomly generated functions were used. 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% “don’t cares” were included. Increased number of “don’t cares” increases the ability of the method to find assignments with low MMD cost

Results

Results (continued..)

DCARL Results DCARL is not designed to find the best solution. Does DCARL allow MMD to handle incompletely specified functions? –YES

Number of output patterns as a function of percentage of “don’t cares” for the 8-bit Gray code benchmark from Maslov WWW Page.

Future Work Additional benchmark testing Complete integration of “don’t care” assignment with synthesis of the circuit. Intelligent backtracking, based on cost analysis. Integrate don’t care assignment with search