Race Around condition can be avoided in Digital logic circuits using?

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  2. Master Slave JK Flip Flop
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  4. AND Gate

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Option 2 : Master Slave JK Flip Flop
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Race around condition in JK flip flop

In JK Flip-flop, if J=K=1, and if clk=1 for a long period of time, then Q output will toggle as long as CLK is high, which makes the output of the flip-flop unstable or uncertain.

This problem is called race around condition in J-K flip-flop.

The truth table of the JK flip-flop is given below:

J

K

Qn+1

0

0

Qn

0

1

0

1

0

1

1

1

Invalid

The invalid at J=1 and K=1 is known as the race-around condition.

To overcome this condition, a Master-slave JK flip flop is used. 

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  • The master-slave flip flop is constructed by combining two JK flip flops.
  • These flip-flops are connected in a series configuration. In these two flip flops, the 1st flip flop work as a "master", called the master flip flop, and the 2nd work as a "slave", called the slave flip flop.
  • When the clock pulse is true, the slave flip flop will be in the isolated state, and the system's state may be affected by the J and K inputs.
  • The "slave" remains isolated until the CP is 1.
  • When the CP is set to 0, the master flip-flop passes the information to the slave flip-flop to obtain the output.
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