Proc. IEEE Asilomar
Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers,
Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2005.
Low-Power Multipliers with Data Wordlength Reduction
Kyungtae Han,
Brian L. Evans
and
Earl E. Swartzlander, Jr.
Dept. of Electrical
and Computer Enginereing,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX 78712 USA
khan@ece.utexas.edu -
bevans@ece.utexas.edu -
eswartzla@aol.com
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Wordlength Reduction
Abstract
Multiprecision multipliers reduce power consumption by selecting
smaller multipliers(i.e., submultiplier) according to the wordsize
of the input operands.
However, arbitrary levels of bit precision are not achieved by
multiprecision multipliers.
We have proposed wordlength reduction techniques that reduce
power consumption with arbitrary levels of bit precision.
In this paper, the signed right shift method and the truncation
method are applied to a 16-bit radix-4 modified Booth multiplier
and a 16-bit Wallace multiplier.
The truncation method with 8 bit operands reduces the power consumption
by 56% in the Wallace multiplier and 31% in the Booth multiplier.
The signed right shift method shows no power reduction in the Wallace
multiplier and 25% power reduction in the Booth multiplier.
Unequal levels of precision in operands show different power reduction
value for the Booth multiplier.
The non-recoded operand in the Booth multiplier with 8-bit reduction
has 13% more sensitivity in power consumption than the recoded multiplicand.
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