A Regular Layout for Parallel Adders

  • Authors:
  • R. P. Brent;H. T. Kung

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Australian National University;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

With VLSI architecture, the chip area and design regularity represent a better measure of cost than the conventional gate count. We show that addition of n-bit binary numbers can be performed on a chip with a regular layout in time proportional to log n and with area proportional to n.