This document presents a modification to the carry select adder (CSLA) to reduce its area. The CSLA is one of the fastest adders but is not area efficient as it uses multiple ripple carry adders. The proposed modification uses a binary to excess-1 converter instead of ripple carry adders to reduce area and power consumption. A 128-bit square root CSLA architecture is presented using this modification and compared to the regular design. Theoretical calculations and experimental results show the modified design has lower delay and area than the regular CSLA.