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Parameters of clock pulses

Note that we need the width of PRESET pulse, CLEAR pulse etc to be greater than some minimum values for proper operation of every flip-flop. This width is measured between 50% transition points of rising and trailing edges of the given signal.

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Setup and Hold time are measured w.r.t the activating clock edge. The Setup time is the difference between the 50% transition point of DATA input before clock edge and 50% transition point of activating clock edge while Hold time is measured between 50% transition point of activating clock edge and 50% transition point of the DATA after clock edge as shown below:

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Propagation time is measured between 50% transition point of activating clock edge and the 50% transition point of output for the corresponding edge but it is generally different when output changes from 1 to 0 or 0 to 1. Hence we define propagation time TpHL as difference between 50% transition point of activating clock edge and 50% transition point of the output change from HIGH to LOW

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while propagation time TpLH as difference between 50% transition point of activating clock edge and 50% transition point of the output change from LOW to HIGH.

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And we take average of both TpHL and TpLH to specify the propagation time

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