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The English physicist W.H. Eccles and F.W. Jordan developed almost 100 years ago a counting circuit. For this they used radio tube amplifiers with feedback and the circuit became known as the "Eccles-Jordan circuit". Later, the tubes were replaced by relays. The characteristic sound of switching the relay finally gave the circuit its name: "Flip-Flop".

If you look up the term "electronic flip flop" in a book or Wikipedia, you get an answer that goes something like this: "A flip-flop is an edge-triggered bistable mutivibrator that can assume and store two stable states." If you've never worked with flip-flops before, you have not become smarter by reading this.

In the first part you learn in 12 experiments what a bistable multivibrator is, how it works and how it stores information. These circuits are known as "latches". Then the concept of an edge-triggered circuit is introduced to give you "real" flip-flops.

In the second part (Go on...) you combine in another 6 experiments flip-flops to applications as they are widely used in computer chips, but also in everyday life: counter and shift registers.

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