Synthesis of Reversible Circuits Using Conventional Hardware Description Languages

Abstract

Hardware Description Languages (HDL) facilitate the design of complex circuits and allow for scalable synthesis. While rather established for conventional circuits, HDL-based design of reversible circuits is in its infancy. This motivates the question whether conventional HDLs can also be efficiently used for the design of reversible circuits. This work investigates this question and provides a basis towards a design flow that requires only little knowledge of reversible computation. This eases the acceptance of this non-conventional paradigm amongst designers and stakeholders.