Low Power and Area-Efficient Carry Select Adder
K. Saranya

K.Saranya, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Anna University, Chennai/Einstein College of Engineering,, Seethaparpanallur, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India.
Manuscript received on January 01, 2013. | Revised Manuscript received on January 02, 2013. | Manuscript published on January 05, 2013. | PP: 14-17 | Volume-2, Issue-6, January 2013. | Retrieval Number: F1117112612/2013©BEIESP
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Abstract: Carry Select Adder (CSLA) is one of the fastest adders used in many data-processing processors to perform fast arithmetic functions. From the structure of the CSLA, it is clear that there is scope for reducing the area and power consumption in the CSLA. This work uses a simple and efficient gate-level modification to significantly reduce the area and power of the CSLA. Based on this modification 8-, 16-, 32-, and 64-b square-root CSLA (SQRT CSLA) architecture have been developed and compared with the regular SQRT CSLA architecture. The proposed design has reduced area and power as compared with the regular SQRT CSLA with only a slight increase in the delay. This work evaluates the performance of the proposed designs in terms of delay, area, power, and their products by hand with logical effort and through custom design and layout in 0.18-m CMOS process technology. The results analysis shows that the proposed CSLA structure is better than the regular SQRT CSLA.
Keywords: Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), area efficient, CSLA, low power.