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This paper proposes a carbon nanotube FET (CNFET)-based ultra-low-power dual-\(V_{DD}\) ternary half adder (HA) circuit. The proposed design utilizes both the available ternary power supply voltages (\(V_{DD}\) & \(V_{DD}/2\)) and prevents direct path between the power supplies and ground, thus significantly reducing the power dissipation as compared to the conventional designs. The performance of the proposed CNFET dual-\(V_{DD}\) HA has been compared with the same circuit implemented with 45 nm MOSFETs and also with other CNFET-based state-of-the-art HA designs proposed in the literature. The proposed HA consumes merely 86 nW of power which is significantly lesser (66–90% lower) than the power required by other ternary HA designs, and also exhibits 69–91% lower delays. The overall PDP of the proposed HA circuit is merely 4–11% of the PDP of corresponding CMOS ternary HA and other benchmarked CNFET HA designs.













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Vidhyadharan, A.S., Bha, K. & Vidhyadharan, S. CNFET-Based Ultra-Low-Power Dual-\(V_{DD}\) Ternary Half Adder. Circuits Syst Signal Process 40, 4089–4105 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-021-01664-2
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