A Full Adder Design with CNFETs for Real Time, Fault Tolerant and Mission Critical Applications

Abstract

The VLSI based circuits often pose challenges in the form of various faults (such as transient faults, permanent faults, stuck-at-faults). These faults appear even after testing also. They occur because of reduction in the size of the circuit or during realtime implementation, as these faults are difficult to detect. It is very important to detect and rectify all such faults to make the system foolproof and achieve expected functionality. In this paper, 12 transistors based, full adder circuit (12T-FAC) using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNFET) technology is proposed. The proposed design based on CNFET provides high fault resistance towards transient, permanent faults and works with least power, delay and power-delay product (PDP). Later, features like fault detection and correction circuit have been added in 12T-FAC. The final version of full adder circuit capable of correcting errors has been used in designing applications like multipliers. The proposed full adder circuit was designed with CNFET technology, simulated at 32 nm with supply voltage +0.9 V using the Cadence Virtuoso CAD tool. The model used is Stanford PTM.