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Logical Left Shift

Logical left shift is an 8-bit function that moves every input bit one position left. The rightmost bit is assigned 0 and the leftmost bit is lost:

Logical Left Shift

The circuit can be stacked to shift by an arbitrary number of bit positions. Shifting a signed or unsigned value left by n bits is equivalent to multiplying by 2n:

f(x) = 2nx

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