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shift register

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shift register
A high-speed circuit that holds some number of bits for the purpose of shifting them left or right. It is used internally within the processor for multiplication and division, serial/parallel conversion and various timing considerations.
shift register [′shift ‚rej·ə·stər]
(computer science)
A computer hardware element constructed to perform shifting of its contained data.


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The shift update scheme forms a shift register for each state by collecting the flip-flops in the horizontal direction as shown in Figure 5(a).
Some specific areas described are bridge defect diagnosis for multiple-voltage design, bypassing blocking bugs during post-silicon validation, accelerated shift registers for x-tolerant test data compaction, and jitter decomposition in high-speed communication systems.
VERTICAL SHIFT REGISTER The mechanism in CCD technology whereby charge is read out from the photo sensors of an Interline Transfer or Frame Interline Transfer sensor.
 
 
 
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