Wallace trees are designs that [emphasize] contain components that perform this action. The Model K was devised by George Stibitz to showcase a proof of concept for this action. Kogge-Stone and Brent-Kung are examples of architectures that speed up this action. Those architectures introduce the logic vectors P and G to “look ahead” parts of this action and are significantly faster than the (*) “ripple” method. Two components that perform this operation are prefixed “half-” and “full-” depending on the existence of a carry signal. The XOR (“X-or”) logic gate is equivalent to performing this action modulo 2. The binary form of this action yields zero if both inputs are one. For 10 points, name this operation exemplified by “1 + 1 = 2.” ■END■
ANSWER: addition [accept binary addition; accept adders or half-adders or full-adders or ripple-carry adders or carry-lookahead adders] (Wallace multipliers contain half- and full-adders, but are not adders themselves.)
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