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Low Complexity, High-Performance Ternary Full Adder Using CNTFET Technology
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DOI：10.1007/s13369-026-11068-6.png)
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This paper presents a low-complexity, high-performance ternary Full Adder (TFA) using carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNTFET) technology. The proposed design leverages unary operators, multiplexers, and a carry-less ternary half adder (THA) to achieve significant improvements in power efficiency and scalability. By employing a dual power supply, the design minimizes short-circuit power dissipation and reduces the transistor count to just 75 CNTFETs—one of the most compact TFA implementations to date. Simulated in HSPICE using the Stanford 32-nm CNTFET model, the proposed TFA demonstrates 32.41% lower power consumption, 23.39% lower energy, and competitive delay compared to the best state-of-the-art designs. Monte-Carlo analysis confirms robustness under process variations, with the lowest variability in power (0.024), delay (0.017), and energy (0.0298). To validate scalability, the TFA is extended to a 3-trit ripple carry adder (RCA), achieving 36.04% lower power and 30.2% lower energy than prior work. This work advances ternary logic systems by offering a compact, energy-efficient solution for next-generation arithmetic circuits, with potential applications in AI hardware, low-power processors, and beyond-binary computing.
Keywords:
CNTFET
MVL
TFA
Unary operators
RCA
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