Low Power, High Speed and Area Efficient Binary Count Multiplier

Multiplier forms the core building block of any processor, such as the digital signal processor (DSP) and a general purpose microprocessor. As the word length increases, the number of adders or compressors required for the partial product addition also increases. The addition operation of the derived partial products determines the circuit latency, area and speed performance of wider word-length multipliers. Binary count multiplier (BCM) aims to reduce the number of adders and compressors through the use of a uniquely structured binary counter and by suitably altering the logical flow of partial product addition by using binary adders is proposed in this paper. The binary counters for varying bit count values are derived by modifying the basic 4: 2 compressor circuit. A 16 x 16 bit multiplier has been developed to validate the proposed computation method. This logic structure demonstrates lower power operation, reduced device count and lesser delay in comparison against the conventional Wallace tree multiplier structure found in the literature. The BCM implementation realizes 29.17% reduction in the device count, 66% reduction in the delay and 70% reduction in the power dissipation. Furthermore, it realizes 90% reduction in the power delay product (PDP) in comparison against the Wallace tree structure. The multiplier circuits have been implemented and the validation of results has been carried out using Cadence (R) EDA tool. Forty five nanometer technology files have been employed for the designs and exhaustive SPICE simulations.