Research Article

Faster and Energy-Efficient Signed Multipliers

Table 3

Partitioned HPM performance.

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

161.753,8480.631.724,0250.671.71−4.59−6.34
322.4813,8173.162.3614,1733.334.80−2.57−5.37
643.1851,91216.352.9950,67316.725.972.38−2.26