Area Efficient 1-Bit Comparator Design by Using Hy
Area Efficient 1-Bit Comparator Design by Using Hy
Area Efficient 1-Bit Comparator Design by Using Hy
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Area Efficient 1-Bit Comparator Design by using Hybridized Full Adder Module
based on PTL and GDI Logic
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digital signal processors and application specific integrated Where n= no of devices and the leakage current is described
circuits used in various digital electronic devices. In the world by the equation
of technology the demand of portable devices are increasing io is (eqV / kT 1) (2)
day by day. Demand and popularity of these devices depends
on the small silicon area, higher speed, longer battery life and Where is is reverse saturation current, V is diode voltage, q is
reliability. The system performance can be affected by electronic charge, k is Boltzmann’s constant and T is
enhancing the performance of the comparator circuit used in temperature.
these systems. Power and area consumption is a key limitation
in many electronic devices such as mobile phone and portable The majority of the power dissipated in CMOS VLSI circuits
computing systems etc. So far several logic styles have been is due to dynamic power. Thus for performance estimation of
developed to improve area and power consumption [1]-[4]. comparator only dynamic power is of interest. Average
Several new logic styles have been developed that have better dissipated dynamic power is proportional to energy required
performance as compared to the traditional CMOS logic to charge and discharge the circuit capacitance and switching
styles. The performance estimation of full adder is based on frequency.
the design criteria for specific application. The main issues in 2
CLVDD
performance estimation are Area Consumption, Power Pd (3)
dissipation, Propagation delay and Power –Delay Product. tp
Area, speed and power consumption are the main criteria of
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Total power dissipation is given by the sum of these three From the truth table it can be observed that
power dissipation i.e. static power dissipation, dynamic power
dissipation and short circuit dissipation. E A B
Ptotal PS Pd Psc (4)
L AB
The average propagation delay of the inverter is given by P G AB
which is defined as the average time required for the input Therefore, we can construct the logic circuit of the single-bit
signal to propagate through the inverter. magnitude comparator as shown in Fig 2 where glowing LED
PHL PLH shows high output.
P (5)
2
The propagation delay times PLH and PHL determine the
input-to-output signal delay during the high-to-low and low-
to-high transitions of the output respectively. Power delay
product is also defined as
PDP 2 Pavg P (6)
Where the average switching is power dissipation at Fig. 2 Logic Diagram Of Single Bit Comparator
maximum operating frequency and P is the average
propagation delay. The factor 2 in above equation accounts 3. COMPARATOR DESIGNS
for two transition of the output, from low to high and from In the recent past various approaches of CMOS Comparator
high to low. Putting equation (3) in equation (6) PDP can be design by using various different logic styles has presented
written as and unified into an integrated design methodology. Circuit
area, speed and power consumption are the main criteria of
PDP 2(Cload VDD
2
f max ) P concern in CMOS Comparator design which often conflict
(7) with the design methodology and act as a constrain on the
design of comparator circuits. These performance criteria’s
2. 1-BIT MAGNITUDE COMPARATOR are individually investigated, analyzed and their interaction to
Digital Comparator "also called Magnitude Comparator" is a develop both quantitative and qualitative understanding of the
combinational circuit that compares two inputs binary various designs have been presented in literature.
quantities (A and B) and generates outputs to indicate whether
the inputs are equal or which input is greater than the other,
therefore, the circuit has three outputs to indicate whether
A=B, A>B or A<B. At any given input quantities, only one
output should be equal to logic '1'.
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4. FULL ADDER DESIGNS TG Full adder design by using 22 transistors has been shown
Full adder is a basic building block used in arithmetic unit of in Fig 7 [12]. As transmission gate based full adder designs
digital signal processors and ASIC’s used in various digital are low power designs and consume less transistors as
electronic devices. There are various possible designs of full compared to the complementary CMOS design. This paper
adder using different logic styles. Area consumption, speed presents an area and power efficient technique to design a full
and power consumption are the main criteria of concern in adder, using TG and multiplexer in order to reduce transistor
full adder design which often conflict with the design count. Most of the conventional CMOS adders have been
methodology and act as a constrain on the design of full adder designed using 28 transistors which are very high and cause
circuits. These performance criteria’s must be individually high power consumption. To overcome this existing problem,
investigated and analyzed for the efficient performance of the the TG full adder has been presented to improve the power
digital circuits. The simultaneous generation of the sum and and area simultaneously as compared to conventional CMOS.
carry output are required in 1 bit comparator in which
comparative outputs are obtained by using 1-bit full adder
design. Various full adder designs have been presented in
[11], [12], [11], [23]-[26].
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Fig 14.a: CMOS 1-Bit Comparator Design Fig 14.b: TG 1- Bit Comparator Design
Fig 14.c: GDI 1- Bit Comparator Design Fig 14.d: PTL 1- Bit Comparator Design Fig 14.e: Hybrid 1- bit comparator Design
6. LAYOUT ANALYSIS
In complex VLSI design manual layout designing for a very
complex circuit will become very difficult. So as compared to Fig 15: layout of proposed hybrid comparator 120nm
manual layout designing an automatic layout generation
approach is preferred. In DSCH designing tool the schematic By default W=0.6μm (10 Lambda) and L=0.12μm (2 Lambda)
diagram has been firstly designed and validated at logic level. in 120nm technology
Although DSCH 3.1 have feature to analyze timing simulation
as well as power consumption at logic level but accurate layout 7. SIMULATION RESULTS
information is still missing. Verilog file is generated by the The performance of proposed one bit comparator has been
DSCH 3.1 tool which is compiled by the MICROWIND to evaluated in terms of area and power on 120nm technology.
construct the corresponding layout with exact desired design Simulation has been performed using Microwind 3.1. Results are
rules. Another way to create the design is by NMOS and PMOS measured in terms of variation in power and current with respect
devices using cell generator provided by the microwind 3.1. The to the variation in voltage.
advantage of this approach is to avoid any design rule error.
Length and width can be adjusted by the MOS generator option
on microwind tool.
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BSIM-4 LEVEL-3
Fig 17: Power vs. Supply Voltage on LEVEL-3 0.6 0.042 0.463 0.025 0.206
All results have been performed using MOS Empherical model 0.8 0.099 1.119 0.095 1.010
Level-3 and BSIM Model-4 in terms of power and current on
voltage levels 0.6, 0.8, 1, 1.2 and 1.4V and operating 1.0 0.179 1.688 0.194 2.112
temperature has been taken 270C.
1.2 0.271 1.993 0.299 2.716
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Table 4. Comparison of Proposed 1-bit hybrid Comparator in terms of area consumption with other 1-bit
comparator designs at 120nm Technology
Area (μm2) 1051.7 (μm2) 716.6 (μm2) 374.0 (μm2) 350.7 (μm2) 329.3 (μm2)
NMOS 21 19 9 8 9
PMOS 21 17 9 8 8
Supply Voltage (V) 1.4 (V) 1.4 (V) 1.4 (V) 1.4 (V) 1.4 (V)
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