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carry-lookahead

carry-lookahead noun: a command that checks whether there will be a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) for the current digit in an ongoing addition operation.

Noun

carry-lookahead (plural carry-lookaheads)

  1. A command that checks whether there will be a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) for the current digit in an ongoing addition operation.
    • A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design

Forms of carry-lookahead

pluralcarry-lookaheads

Questions about carry-lookahead

What does carry-lookahead mean?
Carry-lookahead means a command that checks whether there will be a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) for the current digit in an ongoing addition operation.
What part of speech is carry-lookahead?
Carry-lookahead is a noun.
What is the plural of carry-lookahead?
The plural of carry-lookahead is carry-lookaheads.

Words near carry-lookahead in the dictionary

  1. carry weight
  2. carry-go-bring-come
  3. carry-go-bring-comes
  4. carry-in
  5. carry-ins
  6. carry-lookahead
  7. carry-lookaheads
  8. carry-on
  9. carry-ons
  10. carry-out
  11. carry-outs

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