Abstract
We show theoretically that the average energy consumption of a ripple-carry adder is O(W), and the upper bound on the average energy consumption is O(W log2W), where W is the word-length of the operands. Our theoretical analysis is based on a simple state transition diagram (STD) model of a full adder cell and the observations that the average length of a carry propagation chain is v = 2, and the average length of the maximum carry chain is v ≤ log2W. To verify our theoretical conclusions, we use the HEAT CAD tool to estimate the average power consumed by the ripple-carry adder for word-lengths 4 ≤ W ≤ 64. The experimental results show that, for W ≥ 16, the error in our theoretical estimations is around 15%.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 189-198 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 1996 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1996 9th IEEE Workshop on VLSI Signal Processing - San Francisco, CA, USA Duration: Oct 30 1996 → Nov 1 1996 |
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| Other | Proceedings of the 1996 9th IEEE Workshop on VLSI Signal Processing |
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| City | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Period | 10/30/96 → 11/1/96 |
