64-bit low threshold voltage high-speed conditional carry adder by complementary pass-transistor logic

A 64-bit low threshold voltage conditional carry adder using complementary pass-transistor logic for low-voltage and high-speed application was presented. The improved conditional sum addition rule can reduce the number of internal nodes and multiplexers in the adder design. And reducing the threshold voltage increases the speed of operation. Thus, a low threshold voltage design is favourable for implementing low-voltage, high-speed arithmetic systems. The performances of such circuits are compared with that of normal and zero threshold voltage schemes; the proposed circuit gets the lowest power-delay product and energy-delay product from 1.0V to 2.5V. The circuit is demonstrated to balance between power consumption and performance effectively.