digital logic A logic gate is an idealized or physical device implementing a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single binary output. Depending on the context, the term may refer to an ideal logic gate ...

applications, bit-serial architectures send data one bit at a time, along a single wire, in contrast to bit-parallel

word A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or practical meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no conse ...

architectures, in which data values are sent all bits or a word at once along a group of wires. All digital computers built before 1951, and most of the early

massive parallel processing Massively parallel is the term for using a large number of computer processors (or separate computers) to simultaneously perform a set of coordinated computations in parallel. GPUs are massively parallel architecture with tens of thousands of th ...

machines used a bit-serial architecture—they were

serial computer A serial computer is a computer typified by bit-serial architecture i.e., internally operating on one bit or digit for each clock cycle. Machines with serial main storage devices such as acoustic or magnetostrictive delay lines and rotating ...

s. Bit-serial architectures were developed for digital signal processing in the 1960s through 1980s, including efficient structures for bit-serial multiplication and accumulation. Often, N serial processors will take less FPGA area and have a higher total performance than a single N-bit parallel processor.

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Application of FPGA technology to accelerate the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method

BIT-Serial FIR filters with CSD Coefficients for FPGAs
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