shift register

shift register definition - telecom
An area of high speed temporary memory used to interface parallel and serial circuits. A PISO (parallel-in, serial-out) shift register has parallel input ports and serial output ports. A SIPO (serialin, parallel-out) shift register has serial input ports and parallel output ports. See also parallel communications, register, serial communications, and shift register.

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