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Shift Register
  • A register in which shifts are performed. (FP) (ISO)
  • A storage device in which a serially ordered set of data may be moved, as a unit, into a discrete number of storage locations.
  • Note 1: Shift registers may be configured so that the stored data may be moved in more than one direction.
  • Note 2: Shift registers may be configured so that data may be entered (stored) from multiple inputs.
  • Note 3: Shift registers may be grouped into arrays of two or more dimensions in order to perform more complex data operations. See also data, M-sequence, register, shift.