Minimizing Ancilla Inputs and Garbage Outputs of Reversible BCD Multiplier

Over the last decades, designing reversible arithmetic circuits is one of the interesting research areas because of its ability to reduce power consumption in the circuits. This paper proposes two new design approaches of reversible binary-coded decimal (BCD) multiplier. The realization of such BCD multiplier has been achieved through binary multipliers, multiplexers, and a binary-to-BCD converter. Four types of multiplications, viz. [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] multiplications, have been utilized for such binary multiplication and are implemented parallelly as a combined multiplier to reduce ancilla inputs (AIs) and garbage outputs (GOs). We also propose a novel reversible BCD adder for a reversible binary-to-BCD converter with reducing AIs and GOs. The first design of the reversible BCD multiplier is integrated with the proposed BCD adder in the binary-to-BCD converter. Furthermore, the proposed reversible BCD adder is modified to reduce the AIs and the GOs, which is then integrated into the second design of the reversible BCD multiplier. The results offer appreciable reductions of AIs and GOs by at least [Formula: see text]16% and [Formula: see text]43%, respectively, compared to the existing designs found in the literature.