Full Adder

This adder is difficult to implement than a half-adder. The difference between a half-adder and a full-adder is that the full-adder has three inputs and two outputs, whereas half adder has only two inputs and two outputs. The first two inputs are A and B and the third input is an input carry as C-IN. When a full-adder logic is designed, you string eight of them together to create a byte-wide adder and cascade the carry bit from one adder to the next.

Full Adder

The output carry is designated as C-OUT and the normal output is designated as S.

Full Adder Truth Table:

Full Adder Truth Table

With the truth-table, the full adder logic can be implemented. You can see that the output S is an XOR between the input A and the half-adder, SUM output with B and C-IN inputs. We take C-OUT will only be true if any of the two inputs out of the three are HIGH.