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Abstract-This paper explores the design approach of a efficient Digital Signal Processing (DSP) modules are
low power Hybrid Encoded Booth Multiplier (HEBM) with becoming necessary in wireless sensor networks, in which
Reduced Switching Activity Technique (RSAT) and low tens to thousands of battery operated micro sensor nodes are
power 0.13µm adder for DSP functions that encounter a deployed remotely and used to relay sensing data to the end
wide diversity of operating scenarios in battery powered low user [1-4]. The DSP functions mostly make use of the
power wireless sensor network system. This RSAT approach has Multiply and Accumulate (MAC) operation in which the
been applied on the hybrid encoder of the multiplier to multiplication function is the most power consuming task. It is
reduce the power consumption. The hybrid encoder in the essential to implement the power-efficient multipliers for low
low power multiplier uses both the Booth and proposed power DSP modules. The development of multiplier with
technique. If the number of 1’s less than or equal to three the short critical path and low power consumption has become the
proposed encoding technique used otherwise go for Booth important area of investigation. The inclusion of multiplying
technique. The proposed adder cell used in the multiplier capabilities to processor architecture can provide increase in
block consumes less power than the other previous adder performance for low power wireless multimedia and DSP
techniques. The switching activity of the proposed multiplier has applications. These DSP applications may be Fourier
been reduced by 86% and 46% compared with conventional Transform (FFT), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT),
and Booth multiplier respectively. It is observed from the quantization, or neural networks. It is well known that the
device level simulation using TANNER 12.6 EDA that the clamp down approach of dynamic power which is the
power consumption of the proposed multiplier has been major part of total power dissipation may provide
reduced by 87% and 26% compared with conventional significant reduction in power consumption. This can be
and Booth multiplier. achieved by minimizing the transition capacitance.
Keywords-low power, Hybrid Encoded Booth Multiplier, The reduction of dynamic power consumption by
RSAT, wireless sensor node. minimizing the switched capacitance has been reported by
many researchers [5-11]. Choi et al [5] proposed Partially
Guarded Computation (PGC) which divides the arithmetic
I. INTRODUCTION units such as adders and multipliers into two parts, and freeze
the unused part to minimize the power consumption. The
Wireless sensor networks are composed of a set of reported results show that the PGC can reduce power
autonomous microsystems scattered in a specific consumption by 10% to 44% in an array multiplier with
environment. Each node monitors physical quantities of its 30% to 36% area overhead in speech related applications.
close environment and the measured data are stored and then
sent through the self organized network to a base A 32-bit 2’s complement adder equipping a Dynamic-
station. Main applications of these sensor networks are Range Determination (DRD) unit and a sign-extension unit
monitoring of environmental physical quantities such as was reported by Chen et al [6]. This design tends to
temperature, humidity or vibrations in different places such reduce the power dissipation of conventional adders for
as buildings, industries or automotive environments. Low multimedia applications. Chen et al [7] presented a
power and low energy VLSI circuits have become an multiplier using the DRD unit to select the input operand
important issue in today's consumer electronics. with a smaller effective dynamic range to yield the Booth
codes and it saves 30% power dissipation than
The number of embedded devices that must run conventional ones. Benini et al [8] reported that, the
with battery power or parasitic power are increased. The technique for glitching power minimization by replacing
traditional approaches for designing these systems vary some existing gates with functionally equivalent one. This
according to the need of low power design. Improving the saves 6.3% of total power dissipation since it operates in
performance and reduce the power consumption of the the layout level environment which is tightly restricted. The
circuit designs are having the challenges in low power double-switch circuit-block switch scheme
VLSI Design. The energy
PP Generator
Proposed Detection Logic
Recode Encoder
Selector PP Compression
Booth Encoder
Asserting Circuit
Row
Bypassing
Glue Circuit
Final Adder with
Column Bypassing
Sign Extension
Register
Category
Number of
1's in the multiplier PRODUCT
Position of the 1
Figure 3. Block diagram of proposed hybrid encoded low power multiplier
Operation
1
1st bit
Add 0 to Multiplicand (M)
B
Here a new hybrid encoding
1 scheme has been proposed IV. LOW POWER ADDER CIRCUIT DESIGN
as shown in the following Table I. According to the number
ith bit The proposed full adder cell is shown in Figure 5
of one’s and the position of 1 presented in the multiplier, the
operation
Shift M left by i-1 and can
add be
0 defined. which consists of both sum and carry circuit. The sum and
carry circuit are designed according to the following
C equations.
TABLE I. HYBRID ENCODING SCHEME Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Figure 5. Figure 6. Figure 7. Figure 8.
2
1st and ith C = AB + BC + CA (1)
bit
S = A′B′C + A′BC ′ + AB′C ′ + (2)
Shift M left by i-1 and add M ABC
D
2
th
i and
i+jth bit
Shift M left by j , add M and shift the result left by i-1
h st th
=1 , j
and kth bit
hift M by k-j , add M and shift the result left by j-i, add M and shift the result left by i-1
For example according to category A, number of 1’s in Figure 5. The proposed full adder cell
the multiplier has been one and 3 its position is first bit, the
result has been arrived by add zero to the multiplicand (M). If Here a pull down nMOS transistor is connected near the
the number of 1’s has been more than three then the carry output which has been used to give the undistorted carry
, j and multiplier split in to two and the same above process is output. In the above proposed adder four inverters are used ,
h th
X 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 Multiplier (34)
1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Result (2890)
Figure 6. Output wave form of the full adder