Performance Analysis of A Low-Power High-Speed Hybrid 1-Bit Full Adder Circuit Using Cmos Technologies Using Cadance
Performance Analysis of A Low-Power High-Speed Hybrid 1-Bit Full Adder Circuit Using Cmos Technologies Using Cadance
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Mtech, Department of ECE, Rajeev Institute of Technology, Hassan-573201
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Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, Rajeev Institute of Technology, Hassan-573201
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ABSTRACT: The general objective of our work is to in the form of 0s and 1s. Addition is the core of many
investigate the power and delay performances of low- other operations like subtraction, multiplication, division
voltage full adder cells in different CMOS logic styles for the and address calculation. In VLSI field, an architecture
predominating tree structured arithmetic circuits. A new called Adder is used to add two or more binary digits.
hybrid style full adder circuit is also presented. The sum and Adder can be either a FA or a HA. This project
carry generation circuits of the proposed full adder are concentrates on FA. Thus the main objective of this project
designed with hybrid logic styles. To operate at ultra-low is enhancing the performance of the available one-bit FA
supply voltage, the pass logic circuit that cogenerates the cell.
intermediate XOR and XNOR outputs has been improved to
over- come the switching delay problem. As full adders The requirement for low-power VLSI systems is constantly
are frequently employed in a tree structured configuration increasing because of the endless applications emerging
for high - performance arithmetic circuits, a cascaded in mobile communication and compact devices. Todays
simulation structure is introduced to evaluate the full adders compact devices are usually battery operated for example,
in a realistic application environment. A systematic and mobile phones, PDAs, which demands VLSI with less
elegant procedure to scale the transistor for minimal power consumption. So designers and developers are
power-delay product is proposed. The circuits being facing more problems regarding high performance,
studied are optimized for energy efficiency at 180nm, rapid speed, low-power consumption and narrow silicon
90nm and 45nm CMOS process technology. With the space. Thus constructing a high performance low-power
proposed simulation environment, it is shown that some adder cells are having enormous importance. Therefore in
survival cells in standalone operation at low voltage may this project, a well-organized approach for understanding
fail when cascaded in a larger circuit, either due to the lack the adder construction and working is given. It is focused
of drivability or unsatisfactory speed of operation. The on splitting the entire FA into several smaller modules.
proposed hybrid full adder exhibits not only the full swing Every single module is constructed, optimized, and
logic and balanced out- puts but also strong output tested individually. Multiple FA cells are formed by joining
drivability. The increase in the transistor count of its these smaller modules.
complementary CMOS output stage is compensated by its
area efficient layout. Therefore, it remains one of the be st FAs, being the most basic building block of all the
contenders for designing large tree structured arithmetic processors, thus remains a key concentration area for the
circuits with reduced energy consumption while keeping the scientists over the years. Distinctive logic styles with their
increase in area to a minimum. In this report the 1-bit own pros and cons were examined to execute 1-bit FA
proposed full adder circuit is designed and also it is also cells.
extended to 4-bits and the results of power and delay were
also tabulated. The outlines, detailed up until this point, might be
comprehensively classied into two classifications:
KeyWords:FA=Full Adder, HA=Half Adder
Static style: Power leakage is measured during the
1. INTRODUCTION Continuous flow of Voltage.
There are four basic arithmetic operations. Addition Dynamic style: Power leakage is measured during the
is one of them. Addition of two or more numbers is switching ON and OFF of a Circuit.
broadly utilized in numerous applications of VLSI, for
example in application-specific DSP architectures and Static FAs are usually more stable, less
microprocessors. The numbers that are added in VLSI complicated with low power demand even though the on-
applications are usually in the form of binary digits that is
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In computer arithmetic the FAs can be categorized into D. Radhakrishnan[6] and C.H Chang et al.[3] were
two fundamental classes. The first class includes described the CPL Full Adder. CPL consists of 32
Ripple Carry Adders (RCA) and Array Multipliers. These transistors with a better voltage swing. Even though it has
architectures are constructed by arranging the full adders a better voltage swing its not a suitable choice for
in chain where the output of first adder is the input to the applications which requires low power. The major
next adder. Thus in these designs the critical path travels limitations of CPL are regular ON and OFF of
from carry-in of the first FA to the carry-out of the last FA. intermediate nodes, overloading of its inputs, requirement
Here the generation of the carry-out signal should be of more number of transistors and static inverters.
quick otherwise; the late carry-out signal not only
increases the delay but also create more disturbance and
R. Zimmermann et al.[7] and A. M. Shams Et
glitches in the succeeding stages subsequently ending up
consuming more power. al.[8]describes the major limitation of CPL is the voltage
degradation that has been effectively over come in TGA,
The second class includes Wallace Dadda tree multipliers which requires only about 20 transistors for designing
and multiplier-less digital filters were described in P. J. the FA. But the other limitations of CPL like, slow-speed
and more power consumption are always been the major
Song et al.[1] , A. P. Chandrakasan et al.[2] and C. H.
issues to be concentrated. Thus, the researchers came
Chang et al.[3], which forms a tree like architecture. FAs with a more effective approach which includes the
in these architectures forms a tree of few layers to pack the advantageous features of various logic styles in order to
partial products to a carry saved number before a last improve the overall performance of the design called as
carry propagation adder changes over it to a typical binary the Hybrid logic approach.
number. These multiplier designs are proved to be quicker
than its chain structured architectures. However, these
Vesterbacka et al.[9] presented an approach for
tree structured architectures are more complicated
implementing a FA using more than one logic style which
because of their irregular structure and lengthy
employs 14-Transistors.
interconnections. Thus, this unpredictable structure makes
the layout bit complicate and takes wide silicon area.
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=+ (1)
The Fig-4 demonstrates the detail outline of the Dynamic Power loss: Power leakage is calculated
proposed FA. The sum is being a output of a FA is formed during the turning on and off of a circuit.
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2) Delay or Lag Analysis: As a raise in count of inversion 3.4 CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATION OF 1-BIT PROPOSED
levels in series will lead to a enhancement in lag of a FA OF 90nm TECHNOLOGY
circuit. Interconnect capacitance, junction capacitance,
Inter wire capacitance, intra wire capacitance; each of The Circuit implementation of 1-bit proposed FA of 90nm
these capacitances will matters for the improved delays. technology is as shown in the Schematic Fig-6, which
consist of 16 transistors of 90nm as the minimum possible
= (/) (2) length in 90nm technology. The schematic consist of A, B,
, vdd and gnd as inputs and and Sum as outputs. In
Logical effort(C/I) details for all these factors this circuit module1 and module2 is implemented with
quantitatively. Dynamic circuits were built with the XNOR module to get Sum as the output, but module3 is
purpose to utilize the internal capacitances to grip implemented by carry generation module to get as
some important information which in case of static the output. The nMOS and pMOS will be set to L=100nm
circuits is merely because of delays. These circuits and W=120nm respectively as a default value.
sustained to be very beneficial when fast operation
speeds are essential.
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4 RESULTS
The Test Schematic representation and output
waveform of 1-bit proposed FA and 4-bit proposed FA is Fig -11: Test Schematic representation of 1-bit proposed
obtained and is shown for different technologies like 180nm, FA circuit of 45nm technology
90nm and 45nm as shown in the figures below
Fig-9: Test Schematic representation of 1-bit proposed FA Fig-12: Transient response of 1-bit proposed FA.
circuit of 180nm technology
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(w)
2 Dynamic 0.6447 892.1 0.09397
Power(nw)
3 Power 43.1506 3.2341 0.31159
dissipation
(w)
1 Operating 1.8v 1.2v 1v Fig -13: Test Schematic representation of 4-bit proposed
voltage FA of 180nm technology
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Table -4: Results comparison between various Finally this method improved scheme is proposed.
technologies for 4-bit proposed full adder. This method compared with different technologies
saves more hardware resources. For the further reduction
of hardware we can perform the ASIC design flow by
Sl.no Parameters 180nm 90nm 45nm doing this we can greatly reduce the number of logics
hence we can reduce the hardware utilization and also we
1 Operating 1.8v 1.2v 1v can reduce the area gate and power.
voltage
4.1 FUTURE WORK
2 Power(w) 27.56623 2.817567 0.07831
2 6827 As a future scope, enhancing the execution of 1 bit
5 FAs can be executed by changing the value of W/L
3 Transmission 112 103.3 92.93 proportions. Utilizing the design of 1 bit proposed FA
Delay(pS) blocks, we can implement a 2 bit, 4 bit, 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit,
64 bit Subtractor/Adder circuits. These adders can also be
4 Power 43.1506 3.2341 0.31159
design and differentiate using different possible nm
dissipation
technologies like 180nm, 90nm, 65nm, 32nm, 22nm, and
(w)
so on.
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