Like a Serial-to-Parallel shift register? It's effectively
SPI-compatible, since it has a clock line and a signal line. I think
they're commonly available in 8-bit.

http://www.play-hookey.com/digital/shift-in_register.html

- Marcel

On 6/21/07, William Couture <bcouture@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I know this chip exists, but I'm not an EE and I'm not having much luck
> with google.
>
> I want an SPI chip that gives me an output port, at least 5 bits.
>
> Send 0x06 to chip --> chip clear output bits 0, 3, 4, etc. and sets
> output bits 1, 2.
>
> Thanks,
>    Bill
>
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