Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 380345, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/380345
Research Article

Constructing Dynamic Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Logic Gates

1Information Security Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.O.Box 145, Beijing 100876, China
2Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
3School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

Received 22 May 2011; Revised 9 August 2011; Accepted 16 August 2011

Academic Editor: Kwok W. Wong

Copyright © 2011 Haipeng Peng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Investigation of computing devices with dynamic architecture which makes devices have reconfigurable ability is an interesting research direction for designing the next generation of computer chip. In this paper, we present a window threshold method to construct such dynamic logic architecture. Here, dynamic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) logic gates are proposed, analyzed, and implemented. By using a curve-intersections-based graphic method, we illustrate the relationships among the threshold, the control parameter, and the functions of logic gates. A noise analysis on all the parameters is also given. The chips based on the proposed schemes can be transformed into different arrangements of logic gates within a single clock cycle. With these schemes in hand, it is conceivable to build more flexible, robust, cost effective, yet general-purpose computing devices.