A reduced-area scheme for carry-select adders

The carry-select or conditional-sum adders require carry-chain evaluations for each block for both the values of block-carry-in, 0 and 1. The author introduces a scheme to generate carry bits with block-carry-in 1 from the carries of a block with block-carry-in 0. This scheme is then applied to carry-select and parallel-prefix adders to derive a more area-efficient implementation for both the cases. The proposed carry-select scheme is assessed relative to carry-ripple, classical carry-select, and carry-skip adders. The analytic evaluation is done with respect to the gate-count model for area and gate-delay units for time