Arithmetic Circuits
Arithmetic Circuits
Arithmetic circuits is an arrangement of gates which has the ability to take two 4-bit inputs and it
can perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on the 4-bit inputs. Two of the
arithmetic circuits that we were introduced are the two types of adders: Full adder and Half
adder. A Full Adder can add three inputs and produce two outputs. Suppose the first two
inputs are A and B and the third input is an input carry as C-IN. The output carry is designated as
C-OUT and the normal output is designated as S which is SUM. A half adder is a type of adder,
an electronic circuit that performs the addition of numbers. The half adder is able to add two
single binary digits and provide the output plus a carry value. It has two inputs, called A and B,
and two outputs S (sum) and C (carry). Subtraction of two binary numbers can be achieved using
the 2’s complement of the subtrahend. To find the 2’s complement we can make use of the NOT
gate (inverter) on the subtrahend then add a 1 to it using the input carry of a full adder.