carry-in

plural carry-ins

1. attributiveA location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.

   a carry-in shop; a carry-in party

   1. attributiveOhio; Indiana; Chicago; Ohio; Indiana; ChicagoA potluck (shared meal of foods contributed by guests).
2. computingA command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition operation.

   A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.

   2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design