Power-delay characteristics of CMOS multipliers

Minimizing the power consumption of circuits is important for a wide variety of applications both because of increasing levels of integration and the desire for portability. Since multipliers are widely used in computers, it is also important to maximize their speed. Frequently, the compromise between these two conflicting demands is accomplished by minimizing the product of the power dissipation and the delay. This paper reports on the dynamic power dissipation and delay of CMOS implementations of four different multipliers. Simulation was used to establish a set of models for both delay and power dissipation, and those models were then used to compute the power-delay products of the multipliers.