Anderson G NealChilakam, Madhusudan2024-04-262013-04-1020130510.7275/4018988https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/44455Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is currently being investigated as an alternative to CMOS technology. There has been extensive study on a wide range of circuits from simple logical circuits such as adders to complex circuits such as 4-bit processors. At the same time, little if any work has been done in considering the possibility of reconfiguration to reduce power in QCA devices. This work presents one of the first such efforts when considering reconfigurable QCA architectures which are expected to be both robust and power efficient. We present a new reconfiguration scheme which is highly robust and is expected to dissipate less power with respect to conventional designs. An adder design based on the reconfiguration scheme will be presented in this thesis, with a detailed power analysis and comparison with existing designs. In order to overcome the problems of routing which comes with reconfigurability, a new wire crossing mechanism is also presented as part of this thesis.ReconfigurationQCANanocomputingWire CrossingQCA AdderElectrical and Computer EngineeringElectronic Devices and Semiconductor ManufacturingNanotechnology FabricationPower and EnergyVLSI and Circuits, Embedded and Hardware Systemsthesis