Increment and decrement. They sound like simple functions. But even the simplest functions can get quite complex in a microprocessor design. Ken Shirriff has written up a great blog post about his ...

Designed a 16-bit adder for my VLSI project that included a Built-in Self-test (BIST) circuit made up of 3 BILBOS (Built-in logic block observer). Specific adder configuration used was Brent-Kung and ...

In divide & conquer approach the 16 bit number is divided into individual 8 bits. If we continue to divide we reach the leaf level of the problem. In the leaf level of the D&C Tree is a 1 bit adder, ...

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 ...