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4 – Combinational Logic Design Examples

© 1996 Gaetano Borriello

Ripple-carry adders (cont'd)

• Critical delay

  • the propagation of carry from low to high order stages
  • 1111 + 0001 is the worst case addition
  • carry must propagate through all bits

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