Half Adder

Half Adder is a basic combinational design that can add two single bits and results to a sum and carry bit as an output.

Block Diagram

Truth Table

Output:
S = A ^ B

Cout = A · B

As half adder considers only two bits so along with the addition of two single bits, it can not accommodate an extra carry bit from the previously generated result. Hence, it is called a half-adder. A full adder is designed to accommodate the extra carry bit from the previous stage.

Half Adder Verilog Code

module half_adder(input a, b, output s, Cout);
  assign S = a ^ b;
  assign Cout = a & b;
endmodule

Testbench Code

module tb_top;
  reg a, b;
  wire s, c_out;
  
  half_adder ha(a, b, s, c_out);
  
  initial begin
    $monitor("At time %0t: a=%b b=%b, sum=%b, carry=%b",$time, a,b,s,c_out);
    a = 0; b = 0;
    #1;
    a = 0; b = 1;
    #1;
    a = 1; b = 0;
    #1;
    a = 1; b = 1;
  end
endmodule

Output:

At time 0: a=0 b=0, sum=z, carry=0
At time 1: a=0 b=1, sum=z, carry=0
At time 2: a=1 b=0, sum=z, carry=0
At time 3: a=1 b=1, sum=z, carry=1

Verilog Codes