Area Efficient Sequential Decimal Fixed-point Multiplier

Abstract

In this paper, a new architecture is proposed to reduce the area cost and power consumption of the decimal fixed-point multiplier. In the proposed sequential architecture, the partial product generation and selection cycles are reduced to one. Moreover, the elaborately selected easy multiples reduce the hardware requirement of the partial products selector. Subsequently, two partial products are accumulated with the iteration result in a redundant decimal format by a multi-operand redundant adder. The lower-significant half digits of the final product are iteratively converted in every cycle. On the other hand, the higher-significant half digits are converted by a carry-propagation adder in two extra cycles. After all, the area of the whole architecture is reduced significantly by not only the simpler partial product generation and accumulation architecture, but also the less registers. The synthesized result shows that the proposed sequential multiplier has a lower area cost and reasonable computation latency.