The Texas Instruments SN74HCS595QWBQBRQ1 is an automotive-grade 8-bit serial-to-parallel shift register with tri-state outputs from the 74HCS logic family.
For an automotive line, that matters: once a shift register is soldered and conformal-coated, you do not want to respin the board because the logic part went obsolete.
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This part keeps the output data valid across the full automotive temperature envelope. The 2V to 6V supply range also simplifies the power tree. The tri-state outputs let multiple shift registers share a common data bus without contention.
