A survey of feedback with carry shift registers

  • Authors:
  • Andrew Klapper

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

  • Venue:
  • SETA'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Sequences and Their Applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Feedback with carry shift registers (FCSRs) are arithmetic analogs of linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs). In this paper we survey some of the basic properties of FCSRs. For comparison, we first review some basic facts about LFSRs. We then define FCSRs and discuss their relation to the N-adic numbers. This leads to the analysis of periodicity of FCSR sequences, their exponential representation, and a description of maximal period FCSR sequences. We also discuss an arithmetic analog of cross-correlations, the FCSR register synthesis problem, and how FCSRs can be efficiently implemented in parallel architecture.