An analogue-domain, switch-capacitor-based arithmetic-logic unit

Serb, Alexander and Prodromakis, Themis (2019) An analogue-domain, switch-capacitor-based arithmetic-logic unit. In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). vol. 2019-May, IEEE. 5 pp . (doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2019.8702070).

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Abstract

The continuous maturation of novel nanoelectronic devices exhibiting finely tuneable resistive switching is rekindling interest in analogue-domain computation. Regardless of domain, a useful computational module is the arithmetic-logic unit (ALU), which is capable of performing one or more fundamental mathematical operations (typical example: addition and subtraction). In this work we report on a design for an analogue ALU (aAL U) capable of performing barrel addition and subtraction (i.e. ADD/SUB in modular arithmetic). The circuit only requires 5 minimum-size transistors and 1 capacitor. We show that our aALU is in principle capable of handling 5 bits of information using a single input/output wire. Core power dissipation per operation is estimated to peak at ~ 59 f J (input operand-dependent) in TSMC's 65 nm technology.

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