Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2328-7357 3 1 2015 03 12 An Approach for Fast BCD Addition 13 16 EN Parag K. Lala Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, Texarkana, USA AJEEE2015313 10.12691/ajeee-3-1-3 2014 12 18 2015 03 03 2015 03 12 This paper presents a technique for fast addition of multi-digit BCD numbers. The addition of all columns can be performed simultaneously, and the carry values are utilized only in the final stage of the addition. Thus the traditional carry propagation process is drastically reduced, hence speeding up the addition process. The addition technique is used in the summation of partial products generated during a new multiplication approach proposed in the paper resulting in a faster multiplication.