Ones' complement adder/subtractor

[ben]

On 02/10/2010 10:50 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On 10/01/2010 07:16 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>  > patent 4,298,952 uses
>  > ancillary logic to generate a carry-lookahead signal independent of
>  > the adder. I'm not sure if this accomplishes much.
>
> It does exactly what you've asked for. The point of it is that if you're
> using off-the shelf parts, or off-the-shelf standard cells in an ASIC,
> you already can get adders with the carry lookahead logic. In an FPGA
> you don't, so the dual-adder design you described (and Sun patented)
> will generally have lower resource utilization and be faster.

Then again watch the hardware, a FPGA with fast hardware ripple carry 
may do something sneaky to the logic.

> Eric
>
Ben,who is back to designing on paper since I can't find a
ISB jtag cable here in Canada.