I am a hardware designer. See my comment above, it's going to be ugly. Fast adders are still slow (and awkward), but they only have to propagate a single bit of information, this is much messier.
As a side-note carry-skip doesn't really work in modern VLSI, I guess you were probably thinking of carry-lookahead.
As a side-note carry-skip doesn't really work in modern VLSI, I guess you were probably thinking of carry-lookahead.