A low power and energy efficient 4:2 precise compressor based on novel 14T hybrid full adders in 10 nm wrap gate CNTFET technology

In the realm of VLSI circuits, addition and multiplication are the most pivotal operators in arithmetic units. In this regard, this work aims to propose an energy efficient 4:2 precise compressor utilizing 10 nm wrap gate CNTFET technology. The proposed compressor is constructed from 2 hybrids 14-transistors full adders. The proposed Gate All Around (GAA) CNTFET based full adder employs a hybrid XOR/XNOR logic structure to lower the transistor count and power consumption. After performing rigorous simulations, we have demonstrated that the proposed GAA CNTFET based full adder and 4:2 compressor depict 175.3 nW and 308.5 nW power consumption respectively along with superior propagation delay response (4.4 ps and 10.57 ps respectively) at a 0.5 V nominal supply voltage. Moreover, the proposed designs occupy a lower layout area (0.195 μm² and 0.43 μm² for the proposed full adder and 4:2 compressor respectively) compared to the other counterparts. Our results accentuate the application of the proposed GAA CNTFET based 4:2 precise compressor for ultra miniature microprocessing systems.