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What is the difference between a Latch and a Flip Flop?

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Last Update: August 20, 2009

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Submitted by: aditikakkar

latch does not have clock signal whereas flip flop has,

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October 24, 2006 06:17:57

arindam.mallik

Member Since: October 2006 Contribution: 6

RE: What is the difference between a latch and a flip ...

Latches are LevelSensitive while Flip-Flops are EdgeSensitive.

A positive level latch is transparent to the positive level(enable) and it lathes the final input before it is changing its level(i.e. before enable goes to '0' or before the clock goes to -ve level.

A positive edge flop will have its output effective when the clock input changes from '0' to '1' state ('1' to '0' for negedge flop) only.

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September 04, 2007 14:15:10

bhakiyaraj

Member Since: September 2007 Contribution: 1

RE: What is the difference between a latch and a flip ...

Latch is a level triggered device but flip flop is a edge triggered device.

Latch takes less gates but flipflop takes more.
Latch faster flipflop
slower.
Latch does'nt have a clock signal but flip flop depends on the
clock signal but both are having one bit memory.

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