Bit-serial architecture a single N-bit parallel processor. Bit-serial architecture In digital logic applications, bit-serial architectures send data one bit at a time, along a single wire, in contrast to bit-parallel word architectures, in which data values are sent all bits or a word at once along a group of wires. All computers before 1951, and most of the early massive parallel processing machines used a bit-serial architecture—they were serial computers. 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
Parallel and counter parallel Parallel and counter parallel In music, a parallel chord (relative chord, German: "Parallelklang") is an auxiliary chord derived from one of the primary triads and sharing its function: subdominant parallel, dominant parallel, and tonic parallel. The term is derived from German theory and the writings of Hugo Riemann (see: Riemannian theory). For example, the major and and minor and . The parallel chord (but "not" the counter parallel chord) of a major chord will always be the minor chord whose root is a minor third "down" from the major chord's root, inversely the parallel chord of a minor chord will