Vol10 Iss38 4773-4778 FinFET-based Full Adder Using SDTSP
Vol10 Iss38 4773-4778 FinFET-based Full Adder Using SDTSP
Abstract—This paper presents an optimized design of Effect Transistor (CNTFET) [10] are possible surrogates for
SDTSPC logic (stacked diode transistor based TSPC) using conventional silicon-based MOSFET technology.
FinFET transistors for 1-bit full adder. The analysis was
performed for average power consumption, leakage power, Addition is very important in computational operations
propagation delay and power delay product (PDP) for different and has been widely used in many VLSI designs, in most
supply voltages, loads and temperatures. Comparing the general-purpose systems operations, and in specific
proposed FinFET-based full adder design with MOSFET-based processors. Improving the performance of the full adder
SDTSPC full adder, we achieved a 95.75% improvement in improves the overall performance of the system. Full adder
leakage power consumption. The proposed scheme is also design methods can be generally classified as static and
compared with several previous designs and based on different dynamic logic. Static logic is robust and easy to design.
simulations, the proposed FinFET-based full adder exhibits Dynamic logic has attractive features despite its high
excellent performance. The proposed high-efficiency full adder switching activity. They are usually faster than their static
cell operates at low voltages (0.4 V) even with large capacitors. counterparts. They need fewer transistors, which results in less
area. In addition, voltage levels generally have full swing, and
Keywords—SDTSPC (stacked diode transistor based TSPC) have no static power loss due to the elimination of short-
logic, FinFET transistor, power delay product (PDP), TSPC logic circuit currents, which flow in static circuits when creating a
I. INTRODUCTION direct path from the power line to the ground [11, 12].
However, in dynamic circuits, clock distribution connections
Transistors are essential components in electronic lead to increased power consumption [13]. Also, dynamic
equipment such as radios, calculators, personal computers, logic is more sensitive to noise. However, this noise can be
notebooks, tablets and other electronic equipment. The reduced by several methods. Most plans are offered with one
demand for these electronic equipment is increasing or more compromises. Conventional standard CMOS designs
day-to-day. Therefore, it is important for manufacturers to cannot deliver high-speed digital design, so dynamic logic
produce high quality electronic equipment and various circuits are used to achieve fast digital designs.
functions. Scaling down the MOSFET process in CMOS
technology has become increasingly important in order to Since the full adder cell is the core and the building block
meet customer demands. Reducing the channel length, gate of most computing circuits, it has always been important to
oxide thickness, and supply voltage over the past three design high-performance full adder cells and complex
decades has increased transistor performance in terms of computing circuits with low PDP [6, 10]. This paper presents
speed and power consumption [1]. Fabrication costs have also a high-speed, low-power, low-PDP FinFET-based full adder
decreased sharply. Reducing the size of transistors by scaling for low voltages. The performance of the proposed design will
of technology has led to increased number of devices and the be evaluated in different situations and compared to other
density of integrated circuits [2-4] and an increase in conventional and up-to-date full adder cells in different styles.
capacitive coupling due to the high clock frequency [5]. In This article is organized as follows. In the Section II, we will
addition, by scaling the supply voltage, the threshold voltage have an overview of the FinFET transistor. In Section III, we
is also lowered to maintain circuit performance, which present the proposed FinFET-based full adder circuit. The
increases the leakage current of the device. results of the simulation and performance analysis of several
circuits along with the proposed circuit are discussed in
If the channel length drops below 20 nm, transistors will Section IV. The conclusions will be summarized in Section V.
lose performance. This means that conventional silicon
MOSFETs will no longer be able to maintain Moore's Law. II. OVERVIEW OF THE FINFET TRANSISTOR
However, improved performance of electronic devices is very FinFET is categorized as a multi-gate device whose
desirable in today's semiconductor industry. Therefore, performance is often similar to traditional MOSFET.
engineers and scientists are trying to find a solution to Typically, it has a source, a drain and a gate to control the
overcome this challenge. Multi-Gate MOSFETs (i.e. FinFET) current. The channel is made between the source and the drain
[6, 7], Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) [8], Single of FinFET, which is a 3D strip at the top of the silicon
Electron Transistor (SET) [9] and Carbon Nanotube Field- substrate (so called Fin). In order to form several gate
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Amir Baghi Rahin et al. / FinFET-based Full Adder using SDTSPC Logic with High Performance
electrodes on each side, which may reduce the effects of in silicon, and to enhance device performance and energy
leakage and increase the excitation current, the gate is covered efficiency of full adders.
around the channel (as Fig. 1). FinFET devices are
manufactured in many different ways. In shorted-gate In [14], the designing problem of energy efficient and low
FinFETs (SG-FinFETs), two gates are connected to each noise dynamic TSPC logic for digital CMOS circuits is
other, resulting in a three-terminal device. This can be used as addressed. The proposed scheme in [14] is named as SDTSPC
a direct alternative to traditional bulk-CMOS devices. In logic (stacked diode transistor based TSPC). To reduce power
independent-gate FinFETs (IG-FinFETs), the upper part of the consumption, the effect of stacking on the power supply path
gate is etched and it provides two independent gates. Since, to the ground has been used and to reduce noise, a self-biased
two independent gates can be controlled individually, NMOS transistor has been used in series with the evaluation
IG-FinFETs provide more design options (see Fig. 1). Front transistor. In self-biased transistors, the gate and the drain are
gate (FG) and back gate (BG) of IG-FinFET can be connected connected together as a single node. The good thing about the
in different configurations. IG-FinFET can be considered as self-biased transistors is that they do not require any external
two parallel transistors, and two gates can be stimulated control circuitry and the control signal is generated inside the
independently as shown in Fig. 2. One of the gates, commonly circuit itself. Since gate and drain are interconnected, the
called the back gate, affects the vertical field of the other saturation conditions Vds> Vgs-Vth are always maintained [15].
transistor in the channel region. Thus, it changes the threshold Where Vds is the drain-source voltage, Vgs the gate-source
voltage of device. It also affects the diffusion current in the voltage and Vth is the threshold voltage of the MOS transistor.
sub-threshold regime, thereby controlling the leakage current. In [14], the method of step charging and discharging of the
In addition, two parallel transistors in the IG-FinFET can be node capacitance using self-biased transistors is used. This
interconnected to improve driveability or to form a single reduces the ground and supply bouncing noise. Advantages of
transistor with independent gates. In Fig. 1, the effective the SDTSPC design in [14] over other available designs
channel length and width are equal to 𝐿FIN and ℎFIN, include low power consumption, switching noise reduction,
respectively. The device parameters used in this article are high speed over other dynamic circuit design styles, no charge
listed in Tab. I. sharing problem in dynamic node during pre-charge mode,
reducing the ground and supply bouncing noise, robust against
process corner changes. The proposed circuit in [14]
effectively reduces total power consumption and idle power
consumption. The key idea behind this method is to reduce
power consumption by efficiently stacking the transistors
from the supply voltage path to the ground [16, 17]. Also, a
diode connected transistor is connected in series with the
evaluation transistor to further improve noise and power
consumption [18].
For this purpose, we implement SDTSPC full adder using
FinFET transistors. We replace all MOSFET transistors in the
Fig. 1. IG-FinFET structure [6] structure of this full adder with IG-FinFET transistors. Fig. 3
shows a schematic of the proposed full adder based on the
FinFET transistor. Compared to [14], the number of
transistors in the proposed full adder cell is reduced, because
that two parallel MOSFET transistors are replaced by a two-
gate FinFET transistor [7].
The proposed circuit consists of two P-FinFET pre-charge
transistors (Mpc1 and Mpc2), one N-FinFET evaluation
(a) (b) transistor (ME), and four leakage control transistors (consists
of two N-FinFET (Mn1 and Mn2) and two P-FinFET (Mp1 and
Fig. 2. IG-FinFET symbols; (a) p-type, (b) n-type [6]
MP2)). An N-FinFET transistor called MD is placed as a diode
TABLE I. Device parameters of FinFET [1] connected transistor in series with to the evaluation network
Parameter Value (ME). In this structure, leakage control transistors and diode
Length of the channel (𝐿) 32nm connected transistors creates the stacking effect and thereby
Thickness of front/back gate oxide (𝑡oxfg/𝑡oxbg) 1.6nm reduces power consumption.
Thickness of the fin (𝑡Si) 8nm
Height of the fin (ℎfin) 32nm The advantage of transistor MD is the bouncing noise
Work function (N/P) (𝜑N/𝜑P) 4.5eV/4.9eV reduction during the evaluation phase. As during the transition
Power supply (𝑉dd) 0.9 from the pre-charge to evaluation state the transistor ME is
Channel doping (NBODY) 2×1020 cm-3 switched on first, then MD is switched on when the voltage at
Source/ Drain doping 2×1020 cm-3
node N3 is around the threshold voltage of MD, thereby
III. PROPOSED DESIGN reducing the sudden current impact and noise [14]. Another
advantage is that no additional control circuitry is needed to
Having a full adder with low power, high speed and energy control the performance of the leakage control transistors. In
efficient is very important. Compared to conventional addition, the reduction in power consumption is achieved by
MOSFET technology, the new FinFET technology can be connecting the source terminal of latch N-FinFET to the node
implemented in 1-bit full adders, to continue scale reduction N E.
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structures at the voltages of 0.8, 0.65 and 0.5 V. In terms of TGA [22] 2036.9 57.09 283.39
propagation delay and PDP, it also performs better than other Design3 [23] 2283.8 62.05 364.19
FinFET SDTSPC (Proposed) 196.57 111.46 85.40
structures. Average power (×10−6 w)
Hybrid [20] 0.0603 0.1023 0.1588
CMOS-Bridge [21] 0.0573 0.0981 0.1492
TGA [22] 0.0659 0.1054 0.1617
Design3 [23] 0.0592 0.1048 0.1617
FinFET SDTSPC (Proposed) 0.1506 0.287 0.474
Leakage power (×10−9 w)
Hybrid [20] 386.37 689.64 1500.9
CMOS-Bridge [21] 6.4181 2.0780 4.2522
TGA [22] 8.2755 5.0872 9.2551
Design3 [23] 17.450 5.3407 7.1369
FinFET SDTSPC (Proposed) 0.201 0.27 0.35
PDP (×10−17 j)
Hybrid [20] 6.4235 3.4722 3.0630
CMOS-Bridge [21] 7.2793 3.9401 3.4236
TGA [22] 13.424 5.8770 4.5832
Design3 [23] 13.530 6.9398 5.8890
FinFET SDTSPC (Proposed) 2.96 3.20 4.05
(b)
Fig. 4. Transient mode characteristic; (a) SDTSPC full adder with 32 nm
CMOS technology, (b) proposed FinFET-based SDTSPC full adder
TABLE III. Simulation results of the proposed full adder and
comparison with other structures (frequency=100 MHz, Cload=2.1 fF)
VDD (v) 0.5 0.65 0.8 Fig. 5. PDP of circuits versus temperature changes
Delay (×10−12 s)
Hybrid [20] 1064 339.41 192.85
CMOS-Bridge [21] 1269.9 01.44 229.43
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