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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1979
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1978
Eugene J Nosowicz, Vestal, NY (US);
Robert C Pearson, Newark Valley, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for assembling binary data bits in parallel by groups in variable, selected locations in a shift register for subsequent serial readout. One or more shift registers are arranged in a matrix of rows and columns of storage cells and addressed along one coordinate while a plurality of data are applied in parallel along the orthogonal. Selector circuits are controlled to selectively shift a data word to enable the first bit in the word to be stored in any storage position within the addressed coordinate, with each remaining bit in the word stored in a correspondingly contiguous storage position in the matrix. Bit storage cells of the shift registers are of the set-reset latch type so that once set they cannot be changed by subsequent data bits until the entire array is reset. This enables the overwriting of successive data bytes.