Introduction

This design example is a 1-bit full adder. However, since its goal is to familiarize yourself with the Alliance design environment and its basic facilities, only the core will be designed. Furthermore, since there is no need for a control module here, the design approach will use just one of the data path design techniques available. The design example consists of two phases. The first phase will describe and synthesize the behavior of the half adder. In the second phase the half adder will be used to describe the structure of a full adder (the core of the chip), and then synthesize it.