need idea for a for loop like hardware implementation

[mahaju]

what would a hardware circuit for a for loop look like?
For example, say, I have a circuit that divides by 2 (a right shifter register). Now I want to divide by 8 completely in hardware. So I would need to right shift 3 times (or in other words, a type of for loop). What would I need to do? (ideas besides shifting at 3 clock transitions I mean)

 

[Malek Lamari]

Hi,
use a state machine (FSM).

 

[yadavvlsi]

You can use barrel shifter for this purpose. Barrel shifter is combinational circuit that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single clock cycle.