Digital Circuits/ALU

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Contents 1 ALU Tasks 2 Headline text 3 ALU Slice 4 Complete ALU 5 ALU Delays and Timing 6 Further reading

[edit] ALU Tasks

ALU Stands for Arithmetic and Logical Unit. The basic function or task of the ALU is to perform the arithmetic on the operands given by the user or other source. It is responsible for performing the Addition or subtraction on registers, comparisons for determining equality, larger as, smaller as and shift operations.

[edit] Headline text

[edit] ALU Slice

[edit] Complete ALU

[edit] ALU Delays and Timing

[edit] Further reading

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