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Ladner-Fischer adder

Ladner –Fischer adder is one of the parallel prefix adders. Parallel prefix adders are used to speed up the process of arithmetic operation. These adders are introduced to eliminate the carry propagation delay that rises in ripple carry adder. Ladner-Fischer adder is parallel prefix adder that performs the addition operation. It consists of three stages they are pre-processing stage, carry propagation and generation and post propagation.