Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) technology has been considered as one promising solution to deal with the beyond Moore's law and after von Neumann's computing architecture issues, bringing advantages such as high performance and low energy consumption. In this paper, we focus on the implementation in QCA technology of one of the most well-known Cellular Automaton (CA), namely the Game of Life (GoL). GoL introduced by John Conway is one of the most interesting CA, due to the abilities of self-production and computational universality. In this work, a novel fault-tolerant implementation of GoL in programmable crossbar architecture is proposed delivering the computation universality of the GoL in a plausible way. For the provided design, fault-tolerant majority and inverter gates are also presented in a programmable crossbar architecture. Such an implementation provides the QCA circuits designers with an almost endless library of ready-to-use applications, in various scientific fields. Extensive performance evaluation coupled with appropriate simulation results validate the efficacy of the proposed QCA design depicting appropriately the inherent complexity of the GoL rules and structures.

量子点的细胞自动机（QCA技术已被视为解决摩尔定律之外的一种有前途的解决方案，并且在冯·诺依曼的计算体系结构问题解决之后，带来了诸如高性能和低能耗等优势。在本文中，我们重点介绍QCA技术中最著名的蜂窝自动机（CA）之一，即生命游戏（GoL）的实现。约翰·康威（John Conway）提出的GoL是最有趣的CA之一，因为它具有自我生成和计算通用性的能力。在这项工作中，提出了一种在可编程纵横制架构中新颖的GoL容错实现方案，该方案以合理的方式提供了GoL的计算通用性。对于所提供的设计，还以可编程纵横式架构提供了容错多数和逆变器门。这样的实现为QCA电路设计人员提供了各个科学领域几乎无穷无尽的即用型应用程序库。广泛的性能评估以及适当的仿真结果验证了所提出的QCA设计的有效性，该设计适当地描述了GoL规则和结构的固有复杂性。