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In [[digital logic]] applications, '''bit-serial architectures''' send data one bit at a time, along a single wire, in contrast to [[Parallel transmission|bit-parallel]] [[word (computer architecture)|word]] architectures, in which data values are sent all bits or a word at once along a group of wires.

Almost allAll digital computers built before 1951, and most of the early [[massively parallel (computing)|massive parallel processing]] machines used a bit-serial architecture—they were [[serial computer]]s.

Bit-serial architectures were developed for [[digital signal processing]] in the 1960s through 1980s, including efficient structures for bit-serial multiplication and accumulation.<ref name="Denyer_1995"/>