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As an example of serial data transfer using the shift register approach, a set of four shifts triggered by clock pulses places the contents of the X-register into the Y-register. Since four clock cycles are needed, it is much slower than parallel transfer, but is simpler and cheaper. The illustration below shows the parallel transfer of 8 bits of data from the X Register to the Y Register upon application of an enabling transfer pulse. Clearly, parallel data transfer is faster than serial data transfer, but serial transfer has the advantages of requiring less hardware. These registers are made up of D flip-flops, which can serve as memory locations. The information in the X Register is intact after the transfer to the Y Register, so this process shows a possible scenario for accessing digital information stored in memory.
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A Parallel bus has a relatively large number of wires bundled together that enable data to be transferred in parallel. This increases the throughput, or rate of data transfer, between the peripheral and the computer. A Serial bus can be defined as a transmission path over which the participants transmit their data serially, sequentially in time, and using a common medium. In the case of serial transmission, only a single communication link for transferring data from any given end to another one. In the case of parallel transmission, we use multiple numbers of parallel links for the simultaneous transmission of all the data bits in the network.
Parallel signals send multiple bits or entire bytes at a time. The parallel port was used mainly for printers.
16-bit bus means the bus has 16 parallel wires for data transfer. That allows it to transfer 16 bits at a time.
Parallel Port is one in which the entire data byte is transferred at once unlike bit by bit data transfer by a serial port. The parallel port first came into use in 1970s and were solely used for Printing purposes. However, currently they are rarely used.
There are multiple wires connecting each sub-unit and data is exchanged using a parallel transfer mode. This mode of operation results in minimal delays in transferring each word. • In parallel transmission, all the bits of data are transmitted simultaneously on separate communication lines. • In order to transmit n bits, n wires or lines are used.
COM ports transfer data using a serial connection as opposed to a parallel connection.
A telegraph key.
The type of data transfer that is carried out using a USB port are varied. Some of the types of data transfer include bulk data transfer, isochronous data transfer and interrupt data transfer among others.