Unsigned Arithmetic

Abstract

We’ve come pretty far. We’ve established that in our digital electronic computer we are going to use values that take on one of two values and found a mathematics called Boolean Algebra that supports this. We know how to specify logic functions within this mathematics to describe our system and we even know a bit about the synthesis process whereby the specification is converted into a physical layout. It’s time to zoom out a bit from the transistor level and start using our core knowledge to actually get about the business of designing the necessary components to build our computer. Since we need our computer to be able to actually, well, compute, we’re going to start with some arithmetic.