This document summarizes different types of adders used in digital circuits. It introduces half adders, full adders, ripple carry adders, look ahead carry adders, and carry save adders. Half adders add two bits and produce a sum and carry output. Full adders add three bits. Ripple carry adders are made of cascaded full adders to add multiple bits, with each full adder inputting the carry from the previous stage. Look ahead carry adders reduce delay by calculating carry signals in parallel rather than series. Carry save adders add three bits in parallel and store the carry rather than propagating it to reduce delay.