Design and Analysis of an Energy Efficient 4-bit Barrel Shifter Circuits in 45nm Technology
Neeraja B1, Ramya K2

1Neeraja B*, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology , Hyderabad, India.
2Ramya K, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology , Hyderabad, India.

Manuscript received on March 29, 2020. | Revised Manuscript received on April 25, 2020. | Manuscript published on April 30, 2020. | PP: 885-890 | Volume-9 Issue-4, April 2020. | Retrieval Number: D7596049420/2020©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.D7596.049420
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Abstract: In the design of any ALU, shift registers are generally used to perform addition (for carry movement), multiplication and for any floating point arithmetic. The shift registers currently used are made up of flip-flops which require n clock pulses for n shifts which can increase the delay. So, the aim is to design a high speed shift register i.e., barrel shifter which needs a single clock pulse for n shifts. In this paper, three types of Barrel shifter circuits called left rotator, right rotator and bidirectional rotators are designed in Cadence Virtuoso tool for 180nm and 45nm technology using universal gates (conventional model) and transmission gates. Compared to conventional design, the circuits of barrel shifters with transmission gates in 45nm technology require less power and reduced transistor count.The designed barrel shifter circuits are showing improved performance than conventional models already presented in the literature. 
Keywords: Transmission gates, Multiplexer (MUX), Barrel Shifter, Logical left shifter, logical right shifter.