Comparing Unbalanced and Balanced CNTFET Ternary Adders and Multipliers with the Corresponding Binary Ones

Abstract

This paper compares the performance of the ternary adders and multipliers using balanced and unbalanced set of values. We use the 1-trit adders to evaluate the two versions of a 4-trit propagate adder, which are comparedwith a 6-bit corresponding propagate adder. Similarly, we compare the two types of 2*2 trit multipliers with a3*3 bit multiplier. The simulations with a 32-nm Carbon Nanotuble Field-Effect Transistor (CNTFET) technology show that the binary adders and multipliers are more efficient than the ternary ones that compute the same amount of information