shift register
- noun
- /ʃɪft ˈrɛdʒɪstər/
- Specialized
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registro de desplazamiento
- In digital circuits, a shift register can be used to store multiple bits of data at once.
- bits in the shift register
- CCD shift register
Examples
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According to the manual, the modules themselves are based on a pair of 74HC595 shift registers and are stackable.
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The photodiodes are lined up adjacent to a CCD shift register, which does the readout.
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And we have a shift register structure here.
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Then we're going to wait one more time to let the shift register clear out, which is new.
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The clock, running at the bit rate and with a known phase, can then be used directly to clock the data into a shift register.
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One can consider it a shift register of fixed length, which contains the recent past symbols.
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A counter, counting up from 0 to 9, records the number of data bits currently held in the shift register.
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The bootstrap-line driver circuits obtain their timing from the gate-line scanning shift registers.
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It consists of a conventional parallel-load shift register running on one phase of the 200-MHz clock.
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LZ1 algorithms adapt by maintaining a sliding-window history buffer, which can be thought of as a byte-wide shift register.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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A very small, fast memory inside a computer processor that holds data briefly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term is a straightforward compound: it denotes a register whose contents are shifted, so the meaning is directly derivable from 'shift' (move/change position) + 'register' (a small storage unit). Although it is a technical, domain-specific term, the semantic composition is regular and follows common noun–noun modification patterns, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Shift register comes from the simple image of a row of storage cells called a register, where each small piece of data is pushed along one step at a time to shift. That's why the term means a place that 'moves' or 'shifts' bits to the 'left' or 'right'.