Introduction

Abstract

The term ‘serial-data’ is used to describe the computational style presented in this text. We differentiate between this, and the expressions ‘bit-serial’ or ‘bit-sequential’, because, while many of the concepts follow directly from traditional bit-serial techniques, several forms of bit-parallelism are exploited in the proposed serial-data architectures. Serial-data techniques thus may be viewed as a superset of bit-serial techniques.