Between latches and flip-flops

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hello,

what is the difference between latches and flip-flops ?


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A flipflop is edge triggered (output changes to input value at an edge of the clock), a latch is level sensitive (output changes to input value when 'latch' input is at a certain logic level).

Sometimes in devices with only flipflops like fpga's, the word latch will be used for flipflop, wich is actually not very correct.
 

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