Ira Flop as an inventor is a false story. Please see this link: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blflipflops.htm
The primary use of a clock in flip flops is to provide the trigger pulse to the flip flop
Flip flops , which retain there data even after in power down mode, are referred as retention flip flops.
Answering "Who were george and IRA flop?Inventors of the Flip-flops
Flip flop in circuit That has two states. fili flop can be used to store the states information .
It is know as a flip flop. Singular. Don't be so silly billy :P
what the hell is a flip flop you scum?
I think it was the Chinese.
A flip-flop is an electronic circuit that has two stable states. Flip-flops have many uses. In computers, a flip-flop could be used in memory, where each flip-flop holds one bit of information; or in the CPU, where flip-flops are parts of circuits that perform logical and arithmetical operations.
a group of flip-flops sensitive to pulse duration is called latch whereas a group of flip-flops sensitive to pulse transition is called a register.
A LATCH can be said as the another name of flip flop as the only difference between a latch and the flip flop is that a latch is an level triggered device where as flip flop is an edge triggered device .
With shoes in mind:Flip Flops are known as Flip Flops simply because when you walk you flip and flop your feet + it sounds EXTRA cool... .With Digital Electronics in mind:Flips Flops are known to be Bistable, meaning it can be stable in either one of two states, as shown below:"0 or 1"But the state of a Flip Flop doesn't remain constant the whole time, it continually "flips" from one state to the other, which serves as the very reason why they are called Flip Flops.
flip-flop means reverse or changing course of action.If the working of flip-flops is observed meticulously, we find that they invert for one particular kind of inputs while they remain same for another combination of inputs.While performing experiments.It appears as if the flip-flops are continuously changing their output with respect to the previous output and present inputs.Thus the name flip-flopsthe actual reason is that when early trigger circuits(which is what they were called originally) were connected to a speaker, as a simple monitor for activity, and clocked slowly the sound the speaker made was "flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop, flip, flop,...". This sound is quite distinct even with modern flip flops, even though their edge rise and fall times are many orders of magnitude faster than early ones.