Hardware-efficient low-power 2-bit ternary ALU design in CNTFET technology

Abstract

This paper proposes a hardware-efficient low-power 2-bit ternary arithmetic logic unit (TALU) design in carbon nano tube field effect transistor technology. The proposed TALU architecture combines adder-subtractor and Ex-OR cell in one cell, thereby reducing the number of transistors by 71% in comparison with other TALU architecture. Further, the proposed TALU is optimised at transistor level with a new pass-transistor logic-based encoder circuit. Hspice simulation results show that the proposed design attains great advantages in power and power-delay product for addition and multiplication operations than reported designs. For instant, at power supply of 0.9 V, the proposed TALU consumes on average 91% and 95% less energy compared to their existing counterparts, for addition and multiplication operations, respectively.