Ones' complement adder/subtractor

[William Maddox]

--- On Fri, 10/1/10, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

> I can't seem to derive a stable expression (Verilog) for
> adding two 
> numbers, A and B,in ones' complement without computing A+B
> and A+B+1 
> as a two's complement adder and then selecting one or the
> other 
> result depending on the carry-out.  This seems to me
> to be a huge 
> waste of logic.

I am not sure exactly what you mean by a "stable expression", but I presume that your difficulty is in coming up with a purely combinational formulation of the end-around carry, suitable for execution in a single cycle, that seems suitably economical in logic.

I'm wondering if, historically, the situation was any better in hardwired logic.  It was common in those days to do carry propagation in a second cycle (minor cycle, clock phase).  This allowed such tricks as using a gated toggle input on the accumulator flip-flops as an XOR/accumulate, to implement the XOR part of a half-adder.  This was even done for 2's complement.

--Bill