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Performance analysis of a two-level carry-skip adder implemented in complementary pass-transistor logic

✍ Scribed by Antonio G.M. Strollo; Ettore Napoli


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
478 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0026-2692

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✦ Synopsis


Performance evaluation of a two-level carry-skip adder using complementary pass-transistor logic (CPL) is presented in this paper. The adder is compared with a fulI-CMOS version of the two-level carry-skip architecture, with a carry-lookahead adder automatically generated with ALLIANCE CAD tools and with a recently proposed 32-bit carry-select adder. Furthermore, performances of a single-level carry-skip adder implemented in CPL are investigated. These comparisons are carried out in order to evaluate the impact of the architecture and of the logic style on the performances. SPICE simulations of the circuit extracted from the layout, including parasitics, are used to evaluate the adders delay, while switch-level simulations are used to evaluate the average power dissipation. The proposed two-level carry-skip CPL adder is fast, area efficient and highly modular.