Flip-Flop

The basic structure of a flip-flop includes a data input, clock input, clock enable, reset, and data output as shown in the following figure.

During normal operation, any value at the data input port is latched and passed to the output on every pulse of the clock. The purpose of the clock enable pin is to allow the flip-flop to hold a specific value for more than one clock pulse. New data inputs are only latched and passed to the data output port when both clock and clock enable are equal to one.