You have a limited amount of logic left in a CPLD on your board. You would like to add a 32 bit ripple carry adder. How many gates are used in a 32 ripple carry adder? The 32 ripple carry adder is ...

In Part 1 of this two-part binary coded decimal (BCD) extravaganza, we introduced a bunch of bodacious concepts, including the binary (base-2) number system, binary logic, binary computers, and bits, ...

High performance microprocessor units require high performance adders and other arithmetic units. Modern microprocessors are however 32-bits or 64-bits as that is the minimum required for floating ...

This article was originally published by computer historian Ken Shirriff on his blog. Thanks to his kind permission, the article is reproduced here. Eine Übertragung ins Deutsche ist ebenfalls ...