Research Article

Faster and Energy-Efficient Signed Multipliers

Table 1

Partitioned Wallace performance.

Regular Wallace multiplier with CLAPartitioned Wallace multiplier with CLAPerformance comparison (%)
Word sizeDelay (ns)Area ( m2)Power ( W)Delay (ns)Area ( m2)Power ( W)DelayAreaPower

161.843,9830.661.764,0930.694.34−2.76−4.54
322.5214,3983.212.3014,6653.338.73−1.85−3.73
643.2953,89616.862.9254,44917.3411.24−1.02−2.84