Performing fast addition and multiplication by transferring single electrons

Author

Zhang, Wan-cheng ; Wu, Nan-Jian

Author_Institution

State Key Labroatory of Superlattice & Microstructures, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2007

fDate

2-5 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

690

Lastpage

694

Abstract

This paper proposes novel fast addition and multiplication circuits that are based on non-binary redundant number systems and single electron (SE) devices. The circuits consist of MOSFET-based single-electron (SE) turnstiles. We use the number of electrons to represent discrete multiple-valued logic states and we finish arithmetic operations by controlling the number of electrons transferred. We construct a compact PD2,3 adder and a 12times12bit multiplier using the PD2,3 adder. The speed of the adder can be as high as 600 MHz with 400 nW power dissipation. The speed of the adder is regardless of its operand length. The proposed circuits have much smaller transistors than conventional circuits.

Keywords

MOSFET; adders; logic circuits; single electron devices; MOSFET; PD2,3 adder; adder; addition circuit; arithmetic operations; frequency 600 MHz; multiple-valued logic states; multiplication circuit; nonbinary redundant number systems; power 400 nW; power dissipation; single electron devices; single-electron turnstiles; transistors; Adders; Arithmetic; CMOS logic circuits; Electrons; Logic devices; MOSFETs; Nanotechnology; Power dissipation; Propagation delay; Semiconductor superlattices; Fast adder; Multiplier; PD2,3 adder; Single-electron logic; Single-electron turnstile;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nanotechnology, 2007. IEEE-NANO 2007. 7th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0607-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0608-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NANO.2007.4601283

Filename

4601283