TY - JOUR ID - 150494 TI - Testable MUXED-D Scan Cell in Quantum-dot Cellular Technology JO - International Journal of Engineering JA - IJE LA - en SN - 1025-2495 AU - Gholami, M. AU - Zarei, S. AD - Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran AD - Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 35 IS - 9 SP - 1728 EP - 1734 KW - MUXED-D scan cell KW - Nanotechnology KW - Quantum-dot Cellular Automata KW - Shift register DO - 10.5829/ije.2022.35.09C.08 N2 - Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is one of the new nanoscale technologies which proposed for future circuits. This  technology has been remarkable due to its faster speed, lower size and reduction in power consumption compared to CMOS technology. Many circuits have been implemented in this technology including shift registers, they are one of the most important digital circuits for many applications. With the development of QCA technology, it is important to provide testing methods for testing these circuits.4-Bit serial shift registers designed in previous research were not capable of testing their output. In this paper,  MUXED-D scan cell concept helps to detect the errors before fabrication and reduce time and cost. The MUXED-D scan consists of a D flip-flop and a 2 to 1 multiplexer. Compared to the latest scan cell, we have seen a 25 % decrease in occupied area and 15.62 % decrease in the number of cells and latency from 1 to 0.75 clock cycle. In general, this scan cell circuit is made of 27 cells with an area of 0.03 µm2 and a latency of 3 clock cycles. The proposed shift register includes four scan cells with two inputs which includes main and test signals. In fact, the number of cells used for the last 4-bit serial testable shift register in this design is 324, 0.39µm2 occupied area and the corresponding delay is 6.75 clock cycles. In order to verify this performance, QCA simulator is used. UR - https://www.ije.ir/article_150494.html L1 - https://www.ije.ir/article_150494_a9046eb95bc9fb665b9a0319a58dc9f2.pdf ER -