Saturday, April 12, 2008

Flip-flop (electronics)

In digital circuits, a flip-flop is a kind of bistable multivibrator, an electronic circuit which has two stable states and thereby is capable of serving as one bit of memory. Today, the term flip-flop has come to generally denote non-transparent (clocked or edge-triggered) devices, while the simpler transparent ones are often referred to as latches.
A flip-flop is controlled by (usually) one or two
control signals and/or a gate or clock signal. The output often includes the complement as well as the normal output. As flip-flops are implemented electronically, they require power and ground connections.
History
The first electronic flip-flop was invented in
1919 by William Eccles and F. W. Jordan. It was initially called the Eccles-Jordan trigger circuit and consisted of two active elements (radio-tubes). The name flip-flop was later derived from the sound produced on a speaker connected with one of the back coupled amplifiers output during the trigger process within the circuit.
Implementation
Flip-flops can be either simple (transparent) or clocked. Simple flip-flops can be built by two cross-coupled inverting elements –
transistors, or NAND, or NOR-gates – perhaps augmented by some enable/disable (gating) mechanism. Clocked devices are specially designed for synchronous (time-discrete) systems and therefore one such device ignores its inputs except at the transition of a dedicated clock signal (known as clocking, pulsing, or strobing). This causes the flip-flop to either change or retain its output signal based upon the values of the input signals at the transition. Some flip-flops change output on the rising edge of the clock, others on the falling edge.
Clocked (non-transparent) flip-flops are typically implemented as master-slave devices where two basic flip-flops (plus some additional logic) collaborate to make it insensitive to spikes and noise between the short clock transitions; they nevertheless also often include
asynchronous clear or set inputs which may be used to change the current output independent of the clock.

Answer the questions, based on the dialog above, and translate the answers.
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1. What is a flip-flop in digital circuits?

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2. An electronic circuit which has two stable states what is it capable of serving?

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3. How many types of multivibrator circuit are there?

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4. What has the term flip-flop come to generally denote?

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5. How are the simple transparet refered to?

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6. How is a flip-flop is controlled by?

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7. What does the output often includes?

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8. Who invented the first electronic flip-flop and in what year?

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9. How was it initially called? And what did it consist of?

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10. How can flip-flops be?

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11. How can simple flip-flops be built?

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12. How do some flip-flops change their output?

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13. How are clocked (non-transparent) flip-flops typically implemented?

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14. Where two basic flip-flops (plus some additional logic) collaborate to make
what?

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