This article presents the low-power ternary arithmetic logic unit (ALU) design in carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNFET) technology. CNFET unique characteristic of geometry-dependent threshold voltage is employed in the multi-valued logic design. The ternary logic benefit of reduced circuit overhead is exploited by embedding multiple modules within a block. The existence of symmetric literals among various single shift and dual shift operators in addition and subtraction operations results in the optimized realization of adder/subtractor modules. The proposed design is based on the notion of multiplexing either arithmetic, logical or miscellaneous operations, depending upon the status of input selection trits. The results obtained by the synopsis HSPICE simulator with the Stanford 32 nm CNFET technology illustrate that the proposed processing modules outperform their counterparts in terms of power consumption, energy consumption and device count. The proposed methodology leads to saving in power consumption and energy consumption (PDP) of 62% and 58%, respectively, on the benchmark circuit of the ALU [full adder/subtractor (FAS)]. Furthermore, for the 2-trit multiplier design, the enhanced performance at the architecture and circuit level is achieved through the optimized designs of various adder and multiplier circuits.
KeywordsCarbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNFET) • Multi-valued logic design • Ternary ALU • Nano-technology • Low power B Trapti Sharma
Here we describe the design details and performance of proposed Carry Propagate Adder based on GDItechnique. GDI technique is power efficient technique for designing digital circuit that consumes lesspower as compare to most commonly used CMOS technique. GDI also has an advantage of minimumpropagation delay, minimum area required and less complexity for designing any digital circuit. Wedesigned Carry Propagate Adder using GDI technique and compared its performance with CMOStechnique in terms of area, delay and power dissipation. Circuit designed using CADENCE EDA tool andsimulated using SPECTRE VIRTUOSO tool at 0.18m technology. Comparative performance result showsthat Carry Propagate Adder using GDI technique dissipated 55.6% less power as compare to CarryPropagate Adder using CMOS technique
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