shift register

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 (serial-in, 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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• FHSS (Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum)
• fiber
• Fiber Channel
• Fiber Connection (FICON)
• Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
• fiberglass
• fiberglass epoxy (FGE)
• fiber optics
• fiber optic transmission system (FOTS).
• fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC)
• fiber-to-the-neighborhood (FTTN)
• fiber-to-the-node (FTTN)
• fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP)
• Fibre Channel (FC)
• Fibre Channel Industry Association
• Fibre Channel over IP (FC/IP)
• FICON (FIbre CONnection)
• fidelity
• field
• FIFO (First-In-First-Out)
• Figure A-1
• Figure A-2
• Figure A-3
• Figure A-4
• Figure A-5