Adaptive Supply Voltage for Low-Power Ripple-Carry and Carry-Select Adders(Electronic Circuits)

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Demands for the low power VLSI have been pushing the development of aggressive design methodologies to reduce the power consumption drastically. To meet the growing demand, we propose low power adders that adaptively select supply voltages based on the input vector patterns. First, we apply the proposed scheme to the Ripple Carry Adder (RCA). A prototype design by a 0.18μm CMOS technology shows that the Adaptive VDD 32-bit RCA achieves 25% power improvement over the conventional RCA with similar speed. The proposed adder cancels out the delay penalty, utilizing two innovative techniques: carry-skip techniques on the checking operands, and the use of Complementary Pass Transistor Logic (CPL) with dual supply voltage for level conversion. As an expansion to faster adder architectures, we extend the proposal to the Carry-Select Adders (CSA) composed of the RCA sub-blocks. We achieved 24% power improvement on the 128-bit CSA prototype over a conventional design. The proposed scheme also achieves stand-by leakage power reduction-for 32-bit and 128-bit Adaptive RCA and CSA, respectively, 62% and 54% leakage reduction was possible.
2007-04-01