Without your videos, I would be questioning my future as an EE major because of how hard my professor makes the material seem. You manage to make everything seem like common sense especially when you try to relate to real world examples. The world and more specifically the realm of teaching needs more people like you. For this, I thank you.

I appreciate this lecture. Having designed switching systems in industry, this is a great refresh/reinforcement of the basic principles upon which many systems act, with either an active high or active low Set/Reset channel switch, be it fiberoptic, ethernet, etc. It is great to see that it is also completely done in the computer, as opposed to the traditional chalk/whiteboard. Many thanks, Jim,for your time & for making this freely available to all!

You are godsend sir. You have single-handedly taken one of the most confusing classes I am currently taken and made sense of it. I learned and understood more watching this one video than I have from a week's worth of classes. Thank you.

youtube is blessed to have Jim Pytel's channel..........u make things really simple....n yeah those subtitles were really useful........thanks a million!!!! hey please keep uploading lectures on electronics......thanks again..:)

This is an excellent video. The explanation and voice clarity is really good.

you explain this concept so clearly !!! u should win a award for explaining....

this is my first youtube post ever... I just sat in a class for 8 hours with a blank stare and watched this video and get it... Thank you so much.

just started electrical engineering tech, had no idea about any of this stuff... watched some of your videos and i feel i have a pretty good handle on it now, thanks jim :) you have been a big help

SnR latches are a very tricky thing to figure out. Was all over YT looking for the best explanation...Pytel's the best and most comprehensive I found. Thanks a milli. Love from Nigeria.

What an amazingly phenomenal explanation!!!! unbelievably outstanding job with all the analogies etc. Why couldn't we have a teacher like you? Sheeez! ...I'm taking a digital design and computer architecture course at UC Berkeley and have to repeatedly come back to your videos to understand things properly!

Your videos are excellent! You are a very clear teacher. The way you carefully walk through the timing clarifies the whole concept in a way that a static table cannot. I sometimes have my classes watch your videos.

26min with you made me understand so much more than 90min with my teacher

@20:00 Most enlightening 2 mins I've had in this material I've been learning for over a month

Oh, this is very nice, and helpful. Thanks for putting it up! I'm going to remember your channel for later.

Thank u very much Jim, you elaborate each and every thing which i like about u.

great job man. I didn't know what latch meant until you explained it.

Thanks for the video! I'm a college student at a relatively rigorous college and I found this very helpful. Keep up the good work.

love your videos you make it easy to understand.

acually.. it is the best video ,, i have ever heard thank u so so much

Nice! Thanks for the explanation. My prof just has us building flip flop counters without telling us the how/why/what. This'll help!

this is the best tutorial ever

Amazing videos keep up the good work.

Namaste, Thankyou- all the way from Nepal !!!

You saved me. I've been completely puzzled by this lab exercise for a whole week and you just made it all make sense now. Thank you. Really. Oh and the Ewok joke was good ;)

great job; Loved the video

ty so much! you made this concept so clear for me I was able to understand my teacher's slideshow(without your explanation i was puzzled) so tytyty!

excellent explanation...thanks very much for your help

Thank you Jim!! It's finally clear to me now. :)

i get that joke and did it all for the wookie. Thanks for the good vid, i need help to pass my FE.

absolutely couldn't agree more. thank you so much

Wonderful..Love your lecture :)

you are excellent,, got everything u said ,, brilliant

Thanks!

thank you for the starwars joke! this video is awesome!!

You are my teacher, because my current teacher isn't very good.

Thanks for not assuming everyone would immediately understand what latch would mean.

omg thank you so much, these videos are amazing! :)

Thanks you very much for making this video..

thank you so much for this!

Thanks a lot,sir!!!

Way too awesome!

I almost feel guilty paying such good money to go to a University when you have taught me SO much more than my Professor.

Wonderful !

it helps me a lot thanks :)

wish all teachers could explain like this :)

I am straight.... but I love you. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EXPLAINING THIS CLEARLY! This video is worth its weight in gold!

@baharsahin Hi I'm French, There is no differences, you just invert the position of R and S (R in front of Q and S in front of Q prime). You start with S,R = {0,0} and you read the NOR's truth table (only 0,0 makes 1). The set and the reset have the same impact to Q. Actually, the NOR's truth table is the same than NAND's one if you change 0 to 1, and 1 to 0.

I guess it's because just using 2 NOR gates will be cheaper than using 2 NOT and 2 NAND gates. Even though a NAND gate in the IC can be used to implement a NOT gate function to substitute an actual NOT gate, ultimately still using only one NAND IC chip, 3 gates will have to be used in one IC, as opposed to only 2 if using NOR implementation.

Very helpful!!!!!!

never going to look down on community college ever!

u r my hero :D:D:D thank u , u saved ma life

thanks a lot!

Thanks for not assuming everyone would immediately understand what latch would mean. Question. I have a small dc motor, which when the polarities are reversed, the rotation of the motor reverses, which is what I want. Is a flip flop the best way to control the reversal of polarities? Does 0 equal ground? Thanks!

thank you so much! more tutorials please! especially on edge triggering bistables. i don't really get it. where do we apply all these things?

Isn't it amazing how clear a community college professor can make this when my State university professor couldn't teach us how to wipe our asses? Thank you Jim.

thanks bro really helpful

Terrific sir, you are awesome. Btw at 24:30 Q should be the output of NOR gate with R as input. No offence by any-means. Keep up the good work and Thank you !

Those who liked this video...you guys are not study enough....Jim definitely did a great job on the explanation, but there are two other very basic tables beside the timing diagram which depict the relation between the change of state and output. Where are the two tables?

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@indago9 you happen to have got that from minecraftwiki? :P

sooooo.....at power up, some sort of delay to the "set" must be implemented so that reset in high first to guarantee "Q" is at logic "1" or is there some sort of built-in system for this.

jim do you have any lectures on binary?

what kind of drawing program are you using. I am in EET 121 and we are going over latches this week. it was confusing me if you just have one input on a two input gate it will not work. So you have to start with initial conditions, otherwise it will not work. otherwise you cannot get any output to Q ever. the gates will never work unless you have initial conditions

So an SR Latch is always an active low? and i know when in set mode Q = 1 and reset mode Q = 0 but does that also mean that S = 0 for set? and R = 1 for reset?

but how do you enforce that initial "set" condition where Q=1 and Q'=0? how can you drive the outputs to something?

In my book, it uses NOR gates instead of NAND gates. What is the difference between using NAND gates and using NOR gates in SR latch?

You said that when you hit Set AND Reset at the same time, you get an unpredictable Q output. Does this mean you can create a RANDOM bit of data? Maybe not *truly* random, but at the least, very unpredictable?

how to get active high nand latch

I may have missed links among ur videos... KZfaq doesnt really provide any better navigation tools.. Great video though, I may stop showing up to class =)

At 25:07, S should be noted R and R should be noted S.

so what would actually happen if you set them both to zero in practice? theoretically it wont work because it violates the logic law, but what does it actually do?

The active low set is confusing. I'm not clear on when you're talking about S or S'.

good

My mom asked me where i am, I told her I'm hanging in set land.

man i have a question. why do you use not s and not r for input? you can totally just switch the two inputs since s and r are complements of each other.

the Chewbacca defence

If you wanted to make an active high SR latch with the current circuit configuration couldn't you just stick an NOT gate in front of the S and R inputs?

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I didn't get the 6ft living with 3ft joke :/

U -> R : AWSM ,, that's it.

nice analogies lol

u can do something called "Alt-z" lol dont need the eraser

why do you us not S & not R instead of S & R, is everything just reversed?

I thought the SR Latch was called the RS Nor Latch.

lmaaoo at the joke

A7mdo loves LATCHES if you know what i mean ;)

the last logic circuit is not right, you need to switch the S and R for the logic circuit

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Great stuf!

Thanks!