Review On High Performance Quaternary Arithmetic and Logical Unit in Standard CMOS

Abstract

Arithmetic circuits play an important role in computational circuits. Multiple Valued Logic (MVL) provides higher density per integrated circuit area compared to traditional two valued binary logic. Quaternary (Four-valued) logic also provides easy interfacing to binary logic because radix 4(22) allows for the use of simple encoding/decoding circuits. The functional completeness is proved by a set of fundamental quaternary cells and the collection of cells based on the Supplementary Symmetrical Logic Circuit Structure (SUSLOC). Cells are designed, simulated, and used to build several quaternary fixed-point arithmetic circuits such as adders, multipliers etc. These SUSLOC circuit cells are validated using SPICE models and the arithmetic architectures are validated using System Verilog models for functional correctness. Quaternary (radix-4) dual operand encoding principles are applied to optimize power and performance of adder circuits using standard CMOS gates technologies.