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A digital circuit implementing binary multiplication. A combinational logic implementation forms shifted partial products with AND gates and combines them with adders. A sequential circuit can instead reuse one adder, storing a partial sum, a shifted multiplicand, and the remaining multiplier in digital registers. If those quantities are $P,M,Q$, the update $P\leftarrow P+(Q_0?M:0)$, $M\leftarrow 2M$, $Q\leftarrow \lfloor Q/2\rfloor$ preserves $P+MQ$. Starting with $(0,X,Y)$ and stopping when $Q=0$ therefore produces $P=XY$, provided widths prevent overflow.

Generate four partial-product bits with AND gates:The binary multiplication expansion is $XY=p_{00}+2(p_{10}+p_{01})+4p_{11}$. Add the two weight-two bits with a half adder, then add its carry to $p_{11}$ with a second half adder. The complete combinational logic isThus four AND gates for the partial products and two half adders suffice. Each half adder contains one exclusive or gate and one AND gate. In the largest case $3\times 3=9$, these equations produce $1001$, including the necessary fourth output bit.