TI-H: Does anyone know how to explain how to manipulate a Flip Flop
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TI-H: Does anyone know how to explain how to manipulate a Flip Flop
First of all, assume I am about six years old. I really haven't done much with
electronic circuitry besides use other people's schematics. Any alterations
I have made have caused near natural disasters (I didn't cause the eight
blocks around our house to be blacked out, really I didn't). I am trying to
design what amounts to a serial to parallel interface.
I figure that right now the easiest way is to use Flip Flops. I know what
they can be made to do, but I need to know exactly how to do it.
Allright: a dual flip flop IC has 16 pins: Vcc, Gnd, R, S, J, K, Ck, Q, Q',
and another copy of the last 7 for the second flip flop. I know that Ck is the
Clock, but what does everything else actually do. I also don't know how the
clock actually works. Is the Flip Flop Set/Reset whenever the Clock changes
or is it whenever the Clock changes to a specific polarity?
Basically, I want a flip flop storing the output from the parallel device
and a second one that indicates which pin I'm looking at. However, that would
make this a unidirectional converter, but I'll save improvements for later.
Please let me know how this works if you have a clue at all. I know other
people are working on this and that I just have a pipe dream, but then my next
door neighbor says that it's better to dream the impossible than not to dream
at all (he's a plumber).
Thanx a lot,
-Paul Hounshell