Hello to all Piclisters, I am designing a circuit which uses 3 shift-registers to spare some microcontroller inputs. I actually use 74HC165 as a shift register, but I found also CD4021. In practice, I found out that the data pin of each register cannot be tied to a common data bus. Is there a solution to do this ? (for 3 shift-registers, tie the Q7 data out pin to the same data bus D0 pin, which is also common to other circuits). Is it worth to have an address/data/command bus for a PIC project, which uses one latch, 3 shift-registers, one analog multiplexer and an ADC ? Thank you for your answers. Lucian Copat -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu