Multiplier with Reduced Activities and Minimized Interconnect for Inner Product Arrays

We present a pipelined multiplier with reduced activities and minimized interconnect based on online digit-serial arithmetic. The working precision has been truncated such that p < n bits are used to compute n bits product, resulting in significant savings in area and power. The digit slices follow variable precision according to input, increasing upto p and then decreases according to the error profile. Pipelining has been done to achieve high throughput and low latency which is desirable for compute intensive inner products. Synthesis results of the proposed designs have been presented and compared with the non-pipelined online multiplier, pipelined online multiplier with full working precision and conventional serial-parallel and array multipliers. For 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit precision, the proposed low power pipelined design show upto 38% and 44% reduction in power and area respectively compared to the pipelined online multiplier without working precision truncation.