Adders play a vital role in the design of a digital system using VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) technique. Adders are the basic building block of ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) which is an important component of a processor. In this paper we are comparing and analyzing the performance parameters of basic adders like Ripple Carry Adder, Carry Select Adder, Carry Look Ahead Adder, Parallel Prefix Adder along with sparse adder. The above mentioned adders are implemented using 90nm technology in Xilinx ISE 14.7 Suite.