1. The document discusses the design of a carry-ripple adder. It defines the generate, propagate, and kill functions used for each bit in the adder.
2. The carry for each bit is calculated by grouping the generate and propagate functions of lower order bits. The sum is calculated using the generate and propagate functions as well as the carry in.
3. The critical path in a carry-ripple adder goes through a chain of AND-OR gates rather than majority gates when using the grouped generate-propagate approach.