An enhanced self-checking carry select adder utilizing the concept of self-checking full adder

In this paper, an enhanced self-checking carry select adder (CSeA) architecture is introduced. However, we first show that the carry select adder design presented by akbar and lee does not have the self-checking property in all of its parts in spite of the stated claim. Then, we present a corrected design with the self-checking property that requires more overheads. In addition, we reveal some mistakes in reporting the transistor count of the proposed design in the literature in different sizes, and correct them which again leads to more transistor count and overhead. At the end, due to the fact that the performance of a CSeA depends on its grouping structure, the area overheads of different CSeAs including the corrected designs and the best of previous self-checking designs will be evaluated with respect to the same-size and different-size grouping structures. These evaluations show the comparison of different CSeAs, more appropriate compared to the previous evaluations. © 2021 Materials and Energy Research Center. All rights reserved.