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[โ€“] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Conceptually yes, but you can achieve better efficiency by putting multiple adders together with e.g. a Wallace tree.

There are more efficient ways to expand adders than simply chaining them as well.

[โ€“] laserm@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Gosh, time to rebuild my ALU again..