METHOD AND CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSLITERATION OF CODE WORDS

For transliterating code words of a code having m-place code words into the corresponding code words of a different code likewise having m-place code words, individual bits of the code word to be translitereated are forwarded during serial input into a m-place shift register or during the serial output therefrom. These bits are forwarded non-negated or negated from register stage to register stage over a respective forwarding circuit depending upon the measure or criterion of coincidence or non-coincidence between the code word to be transliterated and the code words of the different code. This occurs in such manner that the traversing bits experience a respective negation in front of and after a register stage whose position within the shift register corresponds to the position of non-coinciding bits within the two code words.