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barrel shifter

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(hardware)barrel shifter - A hardware device that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single operation. It is implemented like a multiplexor, each output can be connected to any input depending on the shift distance.


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Although the fast 32 bit variable rotation used by RC6 is potentially resource intensive, the implementers found that a simple five-stage 32 bit barrel shifter was sufficient.
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The barrel shifter enables logic/arithmetic shift operations.
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