Basic flip flops

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published 12 years ago

justinmcg67

12 years ago

These are not flip flops, they are latches. The difference is a clock input that triggers the flips and flops. Regardless this is a very nice circuit, thank you for sharing.

rbrtkurtz

12 years ago

Close. Technically, there isn't a true formal definition of either. That said, generally both latches and flip flops are bistable multivibrators, a latch has a feedback network for storing memory ("latching" onto), and a flip flop is edge-triggered. Technically, it doesn't have to be a clock signal that is enabling the triggering for a bistable multivibrator to be considered a flip flop. What makes it a flip flop by definition is that it's output only goes high or low at the high-going or low-going edge of the signal. Hence, a flip flop is an edge-triggered bistable multivibrator.

rbrtkurtz

12 years ago

Basically, though, yes these are Set-Reset latches.

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