Design of an NMOS Parallel Adder
71. R. P. Brent and R. R. Ewin,
Design of an NMOS Parallel Adder,
AUSMPC Design Community Newsletter 2, Aug. 1982, 1-14.
A longer version appeared as
Report TR-CS-82-06, Department of Computer Science,
Australian National University, May 1982, 41pp;
also Appendix E: Testing the Parallel Adder, Sept. 1982, 2pp.
Paper:
pdf (1977K).
Abstract
Brent and Kung [60] described a
carry lookahead adder which has a regular structure and is
suitable for VLSI implementation. This report describes a variant of
Brent and Kung's adder and documents the design of a prototype which
conforms to the "Mead and Conway" nMOS design rules.
The prototype will be fabricated with 5-micron nMOS technology on
the first Australian multiproject chip.
Comments
The multiproject chip prototype was successful (see Appendix E).
At the time of publication the use of carry-lookahead in VLSI designs
was unpopular, but more recently the
design technique proposed here has been applied widely in VLSI
implementations of adders.
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