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.

74570c19.qxd 9/12/07 12:41 AM Page 437

• nest egg
• Net (InterNet)
• net (network)
• .net (network)
• Net neutrality (InterNet neutrality)
• Netscape Communicator
• Netscape Navigator
• Network 10 address
• Network Access Point (NAP)
• network access server (NAS)
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• network architecture
• network architecture
• network-attached storage (NAS)
• network-attached storage (NAS)
• network control center (NCC)
• Network Control Program (NCP)
• Network Control Protocol (NCP)
• network element (NE)
• network interface card (NIC)
• network interface device (NID)
• network interface unit (NIU)
• Network Layer
• network management
• network management system (NMS)