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Timeline for Repurposing the parity bit

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Apr 16, 2018 at 8:22 vote accept rwallace
Apr 16, 2018 at 7:58 comment added Jules As an aside: I've used 9-bit wide memory for storing data on an FPGA before; it can be quite convenient at times. Particularly, with 18-bit words you can get a vector of 3x6-bit components, or 12-bit components in a 36-bit word. The particular job I was working on was a digital signage system that used RGB LEDs driven by shift registers, and 6 bits per channel was ideal for that purpose...
Apr 16, 2018 at 7:31 answer added Raffzahn timeline score: 9
Apr 16, 2018 at 7:08 history asked rwallace CC BY-SA 3.0