IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI: Emerging Trends in VLSI Systems Design (ISVLSI'04)
Logical Effort Based Design Exploration of 64-bit Adders Using a Mixed Dynamic-CMOS/Threshold-Logic Approach
Lafayette, Louisiana
February 19-February 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2097-9
This paper presents the design exploration of CMOS 64-bit adders designed using threshold logic gates based on systematic transistor level delay estimation using Logical Effort (LE). The adders are hybrid designs consisting of domino and the recently proposed Charge Recycling Threshold Logic (CRTL). The delay evaluation is based LE modeling of the delay of the domino and CRTL gates. From the initial estimations, we select the 8-bit sparse carry look-ahead/carry-select scheme. Simulations indicate a delay of less than 5 FO4, which is 1.1 FO4 or 17% faster than the nearest domino design.
Citation:
Peter Celinski, Said Al-Sarawi, Derek Abbott, Sorin Cotofana, Stamatis Vassiliadis, "Logical Effort Based Design Exploration of 64-bit Adders Using a Mixed Dynamic-CMOS/Threshold-Logic Approach," isvlsi, pp.127, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI: Emerging Trends in VLSI Systems Design (ISVLSI'04), 2004