Difference engine and analytical engine are the two mechanical computing devices invented by the English mathematician Charlese Babbage (Father of Computer) in the 19th century. The fundamental difference between difference engine and analytical engine is that the difference engine can perform basic arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, ... Read More

There are two different types of microcontrollers namely, 8051 microcontroller and MSP430 microcontrollers that are widely used in a variety of embedded systems. The fundamental difference between 8051 microcontroller and MSP430 microcontroller is that the 8051 microcontroller is an 8-bit microcontroller, while the MSP430 microcontroller is a 16-bit microcontroller. In ... Read More

Resistance and reactance are the two major parameters of an electric circuit element that together form the impedance of the circuit element. One most significant difference between resistance and reactance is that the resistance is the opposition in the flow of electric current offered by a circuit element called resistor, ... Read More

A closed path following an electric current is known as an electric circuit or simply circuit. An electric circuit consists of a number of circuit components such as resistors, inductors, capacitors, etc. Sometimes in an electric circuit, two undesirable conditions occur namely open circuit and short circuit. Basically, these ... Read More

In digital electronics, a flip-flop is a most elementary memory element used in several electronic circuit to store 1-bit information. A flip-flop is a basically a bistable multivibrator having two stable states. Flip-flops are made up of an interconnection of logic gates. However, a logic gate itself does not storage ... Read More

Let's start this article with a brief introduction of JK flip-flop and its block diagram and truth table, before moving on to discuss the race-around condition. JK Flip-Flop JK flip-flops is a one-bit storage device which has two stable states. The block diagram representation of a JK flip-flops is shown ... Read More

In Boolean or logic algebra, a logic function is a mathematical expression which specifies the relationship between inputs and outputs of a logic circuit. Boolean functions can be classified into two types namely, completely specified logic functions and incompletely specified logic functions. A completely specified logic function is one whose ... Read More

A JK flip flop is a type of 1-bit memory element having inputs namely J and K, one clock input, and two output specified by Q and Q'. The JK flip flop is an improved version of SR flip flop which does not have forbidden state. To avoid the forbidden ... Read More

What is a Decoder? In digital electronics, a decoder is a combinational logic circuit which is capable of converting information in binary form N inputs to a maximum of 2N outputs. The block diagram of a typical decoder is shown in Figure-1. It can be seen that a decoder ... Read More

What is a Decoder Driver IC? A type of integrated circuit (IC) which is designed to decode information specified in the binary form is known as decoder driver IC. A decoder driver IC generates output signals to drive different electronic devices like LEDs, electronic relays, electric motors, etc. Decoder driver ... Read More