Abstract: In a pipeline computer system having a plurality of serially connected registering means, each having input means, output means and storing means which, in response to a clock pulse transmits information stored in the storing means to the output means and thereafter stores information in the storing means which is present at the input means, apparatus for branching data from registering means acting as a source of incoming data flow to a plurality of outgoing information flow branches comprising: clock pulse generating means for generating clock pulses; source registering means responsive to the clock pulses for generating a flow of digital information words synchronous with the clock pulses and pluralities of digital branching bits synchronous with the clock pulses; a plurality of branch registering means each having an input means connected to the output means of said source registering means, clocking input means and an output means connected to one of the output information flow branches for, in response

Abstract: Digital words of a pipelined incoming information flow are branched into a number of outgoing information flow branches. The term "pipelined" means that the flow is transferred through memory means whose activation inputs are controlled by clock pulses, the memory means arranged successively with reference to the flow direction being coincidently activated to receive successive words of the flow. A digital branching information flow for ordering into which of the outgoing branches the incoming words have to be branched is generated in step with the incoming flow. The basis for each outgoing branch is obtained from the output of a branching register to which the incoming flow is supplied. The branching registers are activated by the clock pulses, but if an outgoing branch contains only a part of the incoming flow, an activation locking device is used in order to block the clock pulses in dependence on the respective branching information.