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Parallel-in serial-out

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Load mode
  3. Shift mode
  4. Block diagram

Introduction

  • Data bits enter in a parallel fashion.

  • The circuit, shown below, is a four-bit parallel-in serial-out register.

  • Output of the previous flip Flop is connected to the input of the next one via a combinational circuit.

  • The binary input data bits B0, B1, B2, B3 are applied through the same combinational logic circuit.

  • There are two modes in which this circuit can work, namely - shift mode and load mode.

Load mode

When the shift/load bar line is low (0), the AND gates 2, 4 and 6 become active, and they will pass B1, B2, B3 bits to the corresponding flip-flops. On the low going edge of the clock, the binary inputs B0, B1, B2, B3 will get loaded into the corresponding flip-flops. Thus, the parallel loading takes place.

Shift mode

When the shift/load bar line is low (1), the AND gates 2, 4 and 6 become inactive. Hence, the parallel loading of the data becomes impossible. But the AND gates 1,3 and 5 become active. Therefore the shifting of data takes place from left-to-right bit-by-bit on the application of clock pulses. Thus, the parallel-in serial-out operation takes place.

Block diagram