Performance Analysis of Fast Adders Using VHDL

Abstract

This paper presents performance analysis of different Fast Adders. The comparison is done on the basis of three performance parameters i.e. Area, Speed and Power consumption. Further, we present a design methodology of hybrid carry lookahead/carry skip adders (CLSKAs). This modified carry skip adder is modeled by using both fix and variable block size. In conventional carry skip adder, each block consists of ripple carry adder and skip logic is used after each block to generate carry for next block. The speed of operation depends on carry propagation from previous block to next block. In CLSKAs, we use carry lookahead logic in each block to generate carry for next block. The modified carry skip adders presented in this paper provides better speed and power consumption as compare to conventional carry skip adder and other adders like ripple carry adder, carry lookahead adder, Ling adder, carry select adder. The modified carry skip adders with fix block require few more CLB’s because of Carry lookahead logic, whereas with variable block scheme, area optimization is achieved.