Paper Title
Design Of High Performance 16-Bit Brent Kung Adder Using Static Cmos Logic Style In 45nm Cmos Ncsu Free Pdk
Abstract
High performance microprocessor units require high performance adders and other arithmetic units. Modern
microprocessors are however 32-bits or 64-bits as that is the minimum required for floating point arithmetic as per the IEEE
754 Standard. 8-bit and 16-bit arithmetic processors are normally found in micro-controller applications for embedded
systems where high speed is important but low power constraints dominate system design. A good metric of performance on
such designs would be the power-delay product (or equivalently energy per bit.) Many designs give a high speed at the cost
of more power or low power at the cost of low speed. The design of a 16-bit Brent Kung adder presented here has the lowest
delay (among the adders compared, Table 2) and also the lowest power-delay product (among the adders compared, Table 2)
in similar technology nodes. The design makes use of logical effort
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based sizing of transistors and advanced layout
techniques like fingering and inter-digitating to reduce the self-loading of the transistors from parasitic transistor
capacitances.