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carry-lookahead en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A command that checks whether there will be a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) for the current digit in an ongoing addition operation.
    • A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming. 2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design:

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