Title
High-Speed and Energy-Efficient Carry Skip Adder Operating Under a Wide Range of Supply Voltage Levels
Abstract
In this paper, we present a carry skip adder (CSKA) structure that has a higher speed yet lower energy consumption compared with the conventional one. The speed enhancement is achieved by applying concatenation and incrementation schemes to improve the efficiency of the conventional CSKA (Conv-CSKA) structure. In addition, instead of utilizing multiplexer logic, the proposed structure makes use of AND-OR-Invert (AOI) and OR-AND-Invert (OAI) compound gates for the skip logic. The structure may be realized with both fixed stage size and variable stage size styles, wherein the latter further improves the speed and energy parameters of the adder. Finally, a hybrid variable latency extension of the proposed structure, which lowers the power consumption without considerably impacting the speed, is presented. This extension utilizes a modified parallel structure for increasing the slack time, and hence, enabling further voltage reduction. The proposed structures are assessed by comparing their speed, power, and energy parameters with those of other adders using a 45-nm static CMOS technology for a wide range of supply voltages. The results that are obtained using HSPICE simulations reveal, on average, 44% and 38% improvements in the delay and energy, respectively, compared with those of the Conv-CSKA. In addition, the power--delay product was the lowest among the structures considered in this paper, while its energy--delay product was almost the same as that of the Kogge--Stone parallel prefix adder with considerably smaller area and power consumption. Simulations on the proposed hybrid variable latency CSKA reveal reduction in the power consumption compared with the latest works in this field while having a reasonably high speed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TVLSI.2015.2405133
VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
carry skip adder (cska),energy efficient,high performance,hybrid variable latency adders,voltage scaling.,adders,logic gates,propagation delay,multiplexing
Voltage reduction,Logic gate,Adder,Pass transistor logic,Computer science,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Serial binary adder,Carry-save adder,Carry-skip adder,Energy consumption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1063-8210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.42
25
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Milad Bahadori1201.58
Mehdi Kamal218930.41
Ali Afzali-kusha336554.65
Massoud Pedram478011211.32