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Incrementer

Another basic digital circuit is the binary adder. Two input streams correspond to the summands; one wants an output stream representing their binary sum. Strictly, that is a serial adder; but a parallel adder would be mostly combinatorial.

An incrementer is a simpler variant; the output stream consists of an input stream to which a binary 1 has been added; connected to a loop, the circuit could count indefinitely.



Harold V. McIntosh
E-mail:mcintosh@servidor.unam.mx