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24. Shift unit thoughts

Now I spend some mental energy considering the controversial topic of shifting. I want a fast barrel shifter, that will be able to shift by any number of bits. This must be done in stages, but using what TTL chips? To try to work out the best configuration, I consider designs including cascaded stages consisting of a number of the following TTL chips:

o 74LS151: Single 8-1 line multiplexer
o 74LS153: Dual 4-1 line multiplexer
o 74LS157: Quad 2-1 line multiplexer