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Re:Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium by hn3er1q on Saturday January 18, 2025 @08:27PM (#42752840)
If anyone is interested in adder taxonomy and why one might select one architecture over another in VLSI I can highly recommend this slide deck.

https://pages.hmc.edu/harris/cmosvlsi/4e/lect/lect17.pdf

In particular slides 36 and 37

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Re:Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium by kens on Saturday January 18, 2025 @08:35PM (#42752868)
I especially like slide 36, the "time cube" diagram of adder architectures.
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