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Programmable Logic Controllers, 4th Edition
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Programmable Logic Controllers, 4th Edition

by William Bolton
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 38m
English
Newnes
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11 Shift registers

The term register is used for an electronic device in which data can be stored. An internal relay, see Chapter 7, is such a device. The shift register is a number of internal relays grouped together which allow stored bits to be shifted from one relay to another. This chapter is about shift registers and how they can be used where a sequence of operations is required or to keep track of particular items in a production system.

11.1 Shift registers

A register is a number of internal relays grouped together, normally 8, 16 or 32. Each internal relay is either effectively open or closed, these states being designated as 0 and 1. The term bit is used for each such binary digit. Therefore, if we have eight internal relays in the ...

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