Abstract-In this paper, we propose a modified low power 10-T Adder design usi ng 10 transist or s & 12 transist or s feat uring highe r computing speed, lower operating voltage, and lower energy consumption compared with peer designs. The simulation results, based on 0.18um process models, indicate that the proposed design has the lowest working Vdd and highest working frequency among all designs using 10 transistors & 12 transistors. It also features the lowest energy consumption per addition among these designs. In addition, the performance edge of the proposed design in both speed and energy consumption becomes even more significant as the word length of the adder increases.
Index Terms-Complementary & Level Restoring Full Adder, Boolean Logic
I. INTRODUCTIONT he essence of the digital computing lies in the full adder design. The design criteria of a full adder are usually multifold. Transistor count is, of course, a primary concern which largely affects the design complexity of many function units such as multiplier and ALU. Two other important yet often conflicted design criteria are power consumption and speed. A better metric would be the power delay product or energy consumption per operation to indicate the optimal design tradeoffs. Related to the power consumption is the lowest supply voltage the design can still operate properly. Numerous full adder designs [1][2][3][4][5][6] in the categories of fully static CMOS, dynamic circuit, transmission gate, or pass transistor logic have been presented. The full adder design in fully static CMOS is the most conventional one but requires as many as 28 transistors. Dynamic circuits can significantly reduce the transistor count but the incurred power consumption, including that of the clock tree, is usually high. Building logic in transmission gate is another alternative to reduce the circuit complexity. In [1], transmission gate plus inverter based full adder designs were presented using 20 and 16 transistors, respectively. To pursue even lower transistor count full adder designs, pass transistor logic can be used in lieu of transmission gate. In [2], pass transistor logic based XOR/XNOR circuits were used and the full adder design consists of only 14 transistors. Despite the saving in transistor count, the output voltage level is degraded at certain input combinations due to threshold voltage loss problem. At the cost of