Performance Analysis of MAC Unit using Booth, Wallace tree, Array and Vedic multipliers

Abstract

High-performance Digital Signal Processors are the need of the hour in today's world. MAC units being integral parts of such processors are desired to consume low power and to operate at high speeds. In this paper, a detailed analysis of MAC units constructed using four different types of multipliers namely Booth, Wallace tree, array, and Vedic, is carried out. Carry Save Adder, PIPO shift register are used as the adder and the accumulator in the MAC unit. Analyzing the performance of MAC units constructed using different multipliers can help identify the optimum unit to be used in the DSP processors. These designs are constructed for three different bit lengths (4, 8, and 16) and are compared in terms of power consumption, the delay incurred, and FPGA utilization parameters like LUTs, nets, and leaf cells. These designs are analyzed and simulated using the Xilinx Vivado tool and implemented on Zedboard Zynq 7000 Evaluation and Development kit(xc7z020clg484-1).