Barrel shifter
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barrel-shifter-240-18159309
title:
Barrel shifter
text:
A barrel shifter is a digital circuit that can shift a data word by a specified number of bits without the use of any sequential logic, only pure combinational logic, i.e. it inherently provides a binary operation. It can however in theory also be used to implement unary operations, such as logical shift left, in cases where limited by a fixed amount. One way to implement a barrel shifter is as a sequence of multiplexers where the output of one multiplexer is connected to the input of the next m
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Digital circuit found in computers
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_shifter
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date modified:
2023-06-16T01:25:32Z
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