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Ring counter

A ring counter is a type of counter composed of flip-flops connected into a shift register, with the output of the last flip-flop fed to the input of the first, making a "circular" or "ring" structure.

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Ring counter

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples35
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
Components1

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Ring counter

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related to history · 16
Ring counter → Before, Colossus, Early, ENIAC, Five-state, For, Geiger, Heath Robinson, In, Mumma, National Cash Register Company, Other, Overbeck, Robert, Wilcox, Wynn-Williams
has application · 7
Ring counter → Craig, Gray, Johnson, Libaw, One-hot, RBC, Straight
related to Logic diagrams · 5
Ring counter → Alternatively, ANDing, Johnson, Robert Royce Johnson, The
related to Properties · 5
Ring counter → In, Johnson, Ring, This, Unlike
is a · 2
Ring counter → circular shift register, type of counter composed of flip-flops connected into a shift register

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Important terminology

ring counter counters johnson one-hot register shift output used input last first also states flip-flop straight one state binary number

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ring counteris atype of counter composed of flip-flops connected into a shift register0.90text
Ring counteris acircular shift register0.90text
Ring counterhas applicationStraight0.60section
Ring counterhas applicationOne-hot0.60section
Ring counterhas applicationJohnson0.60section
Ring counterhas applicationGray0.60section
Ring counterhas applicationRBC0.60section
Ring counterhas applicationLibaw0.60section
Ring counterhas applicationCraig0.60section
Ring counterrelated to historyBefore0.60section
Ring counterrelated to historyGeiger0.60section
Ring counterrelated to historyFive-state0.60section

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