take a look at Electronic Design   May 15, 2000
ideas for design
FIFO Simulates Large Shift Register
by Massimo Gottardi

bucket brigades are for analog signals

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin McCormick" <martin@DC.CIS.OKSTATE.EDU>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:21 PM
Subject: [OT] 64-Kb Shift Register or Maybe a FIFO


>         I need to delay a bit stream of audio for one second.
> What would work is a 65536-stage shift register because all that
> needs to happen is for a bit to start at Stage 1 and march
> through the register until it appears at the final stage.  That's
> it.  Just clock and data.
>
>         Obviously, if there is a shift register or something that
> can easily be made to behave like one that has 16 Kb or 32 Kb or
> is variable between 0 and 65536 bits, that would be gravy, but I
> need to delay the stream for 1 second.  That is the most
> important feature, and the data are serial so only one bit is
> needed.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications
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