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Re: MISC-d Digest V96 #17


>The conclusion was that unless you have a very good reason to do otherwise
>a skip adder is a good bet for medium performance applications.

Note that minimizing power consumption drives you to do either a ripple
carry adder or a carry lookahead cascade adder.  All the other approaches
have higher power consumptions, in CMOS technologies at least.  This result
surprised Swartzlander and his students, and they looked pretty hard at it,
even to the extent of fabricating a test chip.