Each transponder is factory provisioned with a 24-bit serial number and 8-bit manufacturer code.
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Each possible pattern is assigned an ASCII character, making the sixels easy to transmit on 7-bit serial links.
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To deliver pixel data for display, each Image Engine has a 2-bit serial bus to the Display Generator board.
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Each PE also has two one-bit serial ports, one for inbound and one for outbound communication to its nearest neighbor.
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MMC originally used a 1-bit serial interface, but newer versions of the specification allow transfers of 4 or 8 bits at a time.
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An 8-bit serial adder enabled simultaneous execution of floating point exponent arithmetic, and also handled decimal arithmetic and variable field length ( VFL ) instructions.
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The basic QuickRing system consisted of a number of single-direction 1-bit serial links carrying data, and one extra line carrying a 50 MHz clock signal.
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There were a number of bit serial massively parallel computers around thirty years ago but for instance the ICL DAP had 4096 elements a 64x64 array which is a workable size.