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This technical note compares the performance of some synchronous adders which correspond to the following architectures: i) ripple carry adder (RCA), ii) recursive carry lookahead adder (RCLA), iii) hybrid RCLA-RCA with the RCA used in the…
A new asynchronous early output block carry lookahead adder (BCLA) incorporating redundant carries is proposed. Compared to the best of existing semi-custom asynchronous carry lookahead adders (CLAs) employing delay-insensitive data…
The main areas of research in VLSI system design include area, high speed, and power-efficient data route logic systems. The amount of time needed to send a carry through the adder limits the pace at which addition can occur in digital…
The section-carry based carry lookahead adder (SCBCLA) topology was proposed as an improved high-speed alternative to the conventional carry lookahead adder (CCLA) topology in previous works. Self-timed and FPGA-based implementations of…
We consider the problem of constructing fast and small parallel prefix adders for non-uniform input arrival times. This problem arises whenever the adder is embedded into a more complex circuit, e. g. a multiplier. Most previous results are…
This paper presents a new early output hybrid input encoded asynchronous full adder designed using dual-rail and 1-of-4 delay-insensitive data codes. The proposed full adder when cascaded to form a ripple carry adder (RCA) necessitates the…
This paper presents the Hybrid Overestimating Approximate Adder designed to enhance the performance in processing engines, specifically focused on edge AI applications. A novel Plus One Adder design is proposed as an incremental adder in…
The section-carry based carry lookahead adder (SCBCLA) architecture was proposed as an efficient alternative to the conventional carry lookahead adder (CCLA) architecture for the physical implementation of computer arithmetic. In previous…
Approximate ripple carry adders (RCAs) and carry lookahead adders (CLAs) are presented which are compared with accurate RCAs and CLAs for performing a 32-bit addition. The accurate and approximate RCAs and CLAs are implemented using a…
We present the design of a quantum carry-lookahead adder using measurement-based quantum computation. The quantum carry-lookahead adder (QCLA) is faster than a quantum ripple-carry adder; QCLA has logarithmic depth while ripple adders have…
Asynchronous circuits employing delay-insensitive codes for data representation i.e. encoding and following a 4-phase return-to-zero protocol for handshaking are generally robust. Depending upon whether a single delay-insensitive code or…
This article presents two area/latency optimized gate level asynchronous full adder designs which correspond to early output logic. The proposed full adders are constructed using the delay-insensitive dual-rail code and adhere to the…
Approximate computing has in recent times found significant applications towards lowering power, area, and time requirements for arithmetic operations. Several works done in recent years have furthered approximate computing along these…
We present efficient circuits for the addition of binary numbers. We assume that we are given arrival times for all input bits and optimize the delay of the circuits, i.e.\ the time when the last output bit is computed. This contains the…
A new asynchronous early output section-carry based carry lookahead adder (SCBCLA) with alias carry output logic is presented in this paper. To evaluate the proposed SCBCLA with alias carry logic and to make a comparison with other CLAs, a…
The quantum and reversible paradigm merges the principles of quantum mechanics and reversible computation to enable information-preserving processing. It supports next-generation computing architectures that provide improved scalability and…
We consider the fundamental problem of constructing fast circuits for the carry bit computation in binary addition. Up to a small additive constant, the carry bit computation reduces to computing an \aop, i.e., a formula of type $t_0 \land…
In this work, we present a class of new designs for reversible binary and BCD adder circuits. The proposed designs are primarily optimized for the number of ancilla inputs and the number of garbage outputs and are designed for possible best…
We present an efficient addition circuit, borrowing techniques from the classical carry-lookahead arithmetic circuit. Our quantum carry-lookahead (QCLA) adder accepts two n-bit numbers and adds them in O(log n) depth using O(n) ancillary…
This technical note presents the design of a new area optimized asynchronous early output dual-bit full adder (DBFA). An asynchronous ripple carry adder (RCA) is constructed based on the new asynchronous DBFAs and existing asynchronous…