Resumen de VLSI design and comparative analysis of several types of fixed and simple precision floating point multipliers
Abimael Jiménez Pérez, Marco Gurrola Navarro, Víctor Manuel Valenzuela De la Cruz, José Antonio Muñoz Gómez, Omar Aguilar
Multiplication is an arithmetic operation that has a meaningful impact on the performance of several real-life applications, such as digital signal and image processing. Analysis and comparison of different types of fixed-point multipliers such as Wallace tree, array, and Booth-2 with truncated and non-truncated versions were included in this design. Fixed-point multipliers were used to design floating-point multipliers through a hardware description language. As a result, area and speed values were analyzed. Booth-2 fixed multiplier with truncation and RCA adders present both the longest delay and the largest area consumption. Wallace tree floating-point multiplier required the smallest area and the shortest delay. The 8-bit versions of fixed-point multipliers were physically synthesized, using the Alliance tools, to obtain the layout of the circuits. The integrated circuits were successfully fabricated in a 0.5-μm CMOS technology.
