An Investigation of Hardware Implementation of Multi-Valued Logic Using Different Nanodevices

In recent years, multi-valued logic (MVL) has received special attention from scientists. In MVL, unlike binary logic, where each signal has two different states, each signal has more than two states. Increasing the states of each signal in MVL reduces the volume of interconnections and chip pins and increases the density of data stored in memories. The main challenge of MVL is the hardware implementation of MVL circuits. In this paper, two popular nanotechnologies for implementing MVL have been investigated. These two nanotechnologies are carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNTFET) and FinFETs. Also, in this paper, for the first time, a standard quaternary inverter (SQI) was designed and simulated using FinFET transistors as a commercially available technology for designing and manufacturing integrated circuits.