Design and realization of high-performance wave-pipelined 8×8 b multiplier in CMOS technology

Ghosh, D and Nandy, SK (1995) Design and realization of high-performance wave-pipelined 8×8 b multiplier in CMOS technology. In: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, 3 (1). pp. 36-48.

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Abstract

Wave pipelining is a design technique for increasing the throughput of a digital circuit or system without introducing pipelining registers between adjacent combinational logic blocks in the circuit/system. However, this requires balancing of the delays along all the paths from the input to the output which comes the way of its implementation. Static CMOS is inherently susceptible to delay variation with input data, and hence, receives a low priority for wave pipelined digital design. On the other hand, ECL and CML, which are amenable to wave pipelining, lack the compactness and low power attributes of CMOS. In this paper we attempt to exploit wave pipelining in CMOS technology. We use a single generic building block in Normal Process Complementary Pass Transistor Logic (NPCPL), modeled after CPL, to achieve equal delay along all the propagation paths in the logic structure. An 8×8 b multiplier is designed using this logic in a 0.8 ?m technology. The carry-save multiplier architecture is modified suitably to support wave pipelining, viz., the logic depth of all the paths are made identical. The 1 mm×0.6 mm multiplier core supports a throughput of 400 MHz and dissipates a total power of 0.6 W. We develop simple enhancements to the NPCPL building blocks that allow the multiplier to sustain throughputs in excess of 600 MHz. The methodology can be extended to introduce wave pipelining in other circuits as well

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre
Date Deposited:	15 Jun 2011 08:55
Last Modified:	15 Jun 2011 08:55
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/37531

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