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Shift registers
AShiftregisterisacombinationofmemoryelements,whicharelinkedtogethertostore
dataandthenshiftthestoreddatainaleftwardsorrightwardsdirection.
26.1Shiftregisterapplications
Thefollowingisalistofapplications,whichrequiretheuseofashiftregister.
(a)Paralleltoserialconversion.
(b)Serialtoparallelconversion.
(c)Storageandshiftingofdatarelatingtoindustrialprocesses.
(d)Scanningofinputsignalssequentially,i.e.multiplexing.
26.2Basicshiftregisteroperation
The basic principle of operation for the ladder diagram shown below, is that