| slovo | definícia |
flop
(mass) | flop
- padnúť |
flop
(encz) | flop,neúspěch n: Zdeněk Brož |
flop
(encz) | flop,operace s plovoucí čárkou n: [it.] Zdeněk Brož |
flop
(encz) | flop,padnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
flop
(encz) | flop,propadák n: Zdeněk Brož |
Flop
(gcide) | Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flopped (fl[o^]pt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Flopping.] [A variant of flap.]
1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail,
etc.; to flap.
[1913 Webster]
2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.]
--Fielding.
[1913 Webster] |
Flop
(gcide) | Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. i.
1. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish
with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall;
as, the brim of a hat flops.
[1913 Webster]
2. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and
unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
[1913 Webster] |
Flop
(gcide) | Flop \Flop\, n.
Act of flopping. [Colloq.] --W. H. Russell.
[1913 Webster] |
flop
(wn) | flop
adv 1: with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"
2: exactly; "he fell flop on his face" [syn: right, flop]
n 1: an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point
numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per
second" [syn: floating-point operation, flop]
2: someone who is unsuccessful [syn: flop, dud, washout]
3: a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" [syn:
flop, bust, fizzle]
4: the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with
a great flop" [syn: flop, collapse]
v 1: fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"
2: fall suddenly and abruptly
3: fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" [syn: {fall
through}, fall flat, founder, flop] |
flop
(foldoc) | FLOP
1. An early system on the IBM 701.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1994-11-14)
2. Erroneous singular of FLOPS.
(2005-06-17)
|
flop
(devil) | FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another
party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus,
who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our
partisan journals.
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| | podobné slovo | definícia |
flop
(mass) | flop
- padnúť |
flopped
(mass) | flopped
- padol |
floppy
(mass) | floppy
- mäkký, ohybný, poddajný, pružný, disketa |
floppydisk
(mass) | floppy-disk
- disketa |
flip-flop
(encz) | flip-flop,přemet vzad Zdeněk Brož |
flip-flops
(encz) | flip-flops,žabky n: letní otevřená obuv xkomczax |
flipflop
(encz) | flipflop, |
flop
(encz) | flop,neúspěch n: Zdeněk Brožflop,operace s plovoucí čárkou n: [it.] Zdeněk Brožflop,padnout v: Zdeněk Brožflop,propadák n: Zdeněk Brož |
flophouse
(encz) | flophouse,noclehárna n: Zdeněk Brožflophouse,zapadák n: Zdeněk Brož |
flopped
(encz) | flopped,padl v: Zdeněk Brož |
flopper
(encz) | flopper,klapka n: Zdeněk Brožflopper,simulant (ve fotbale) n: [sport.] hráč, který úmyslně upadne,
aniž by se jej někdo dotknul, za účelem písknutí faulu Jiří Dadák |
floppies
(encz) | floppies,měkkosti Jaroslav Šedivý |
floppily
(encz) | floppily, |
floppiness
(encz) | floppiness,schlíplost n: Zdeněk Brož |
flopping
(encz) | flopping, |
floppy
(encz) | floppy,disketa n: [it.] floppy,měkký adj: Zdeněk Brožfloppy,ohebný adj: Zdeněk Brožfloppy,poddajný adj: Zdeněk Brožfloppy,pružný adj: Zdeněk Brožfloppy,schlíplý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
floppy disk
(encz) | floppy disk,disketa n: [it.] floppy disk,pružný disk n: [it.] |
megaflop
(encz) | megaflop, n: |
teraflop
(encz) | teraflop, n: |
Flop
(gcide) | Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flopped (fl[o^]pt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Flopping.] [A variant of flap.]
1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail,
etc.; to flap.
[1913 Webster]
2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.]
--Fielding.
[1913 Webster]Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. i.
1. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish
with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall;
as, the brim of a hat flops.
[1913 Webster]
2. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and
unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
[1913 Webster]Flop \Flop\, n.
Act of flopping. [Colloq.] --W. H. Russell.
[1913 Webster] |
flophouse
(gcide) | flophouse \flophouse\ n.
a cheap and usually seedy lodging house or hotel.
Syn: dosshouse.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Flopped
(gcide) | Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flopped (fl[o^]pt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Flopping.] [A variant of flap.]
1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail,
etc.; to flap.
[1913 Webster]
2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.]
--Fielding.
[1913 Webster] |
Flopping
(gcide) | Flop \Flop\ (fl[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flopped (fl[o^]pt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Flopping.] [A variant of flap.]
1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail,
etc.; to flap.
[1913 Webster]
2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.]
--Fielding.
[1913 Webster] |
Floppy
(gcide) | Floppy \Flop"py\, n.
Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
--G. Eliot.
[1913 Webster] |
floppy disk
(gcide) | magnetic disc \magnetic disc\, magnetic disk \magnetic disk\n.
A ditical memory device consisting of a flat disk covered
with a magnetic coating on which information is stored; a
hard disk, floppy disk, and diskette are typically
magnetic disks.
Syn: disk, disc.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Flopwing
(gcide) | Flopwing \Flop"wing`\, n. (Zool.)
The lapwing.
[1913 Webster] |
belly flop
(wn) | belly flop
n 1: a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact
with the water [syn: belly flop, belly flopper, {belly
whop}, belly whopper] |
belly flopper
(wn) | belly flopper
n 1: a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact
with the water [syn: belly flop, belly flopper, {belly
whop}, belly whopper] |
belly-flop
(wn) | belly-flop
v 1: dive so that one hits the water with one's belly |
flip-flop
(wn) | flip-flop
n 1: a decision to reverse an earlier decision [syn: reversal,
change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround]
2: a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big
toe and the second toe [syn: flip-flop, thong]
3: an electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable
states
4: a backward somersault
v 1: reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) [syn:
interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip,
flip-flop] |
flop
(wn) | flop
adv 1: with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"
2: exactly; "he fell flop on his face" [syn: right, flop]
n 1: an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point
numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per
second" [syn: floating-point operation, flop]
2: someone who is unsuccessful [syn: flop, dud, washout]
3: a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" [syn:
flop, bust, fizzle]
4: the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with
a great flop" [syn: flop, collapse]
v 1: fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"
2: fall suddenly and abruptly
3: fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" [syn: {fall
through}, fall flat, founder, flop] |
flophouse
(wn) | flophouse
n 1: a cheap lodging house [syn: flophouse, dosshouse] |
floppy
(wn) | floppy
adj 1: hanging limply; "a spaniel with floppy ears"
n 1: a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope
with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a
microcomputer; "floppy disks are noted for their relatively
slow speed and small capacity and low price" [syn:
diskette, floppy, floppy disk] |
floppy disk
(wn) | floppy disk
n 1: a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope
with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a
microcomputer; "floppy disks are noted for their relatively
slow speed and small capacity and low price" [syn:
diskette, floppy, floppy disk] |
fosbury flop
(wn) | Fosbury flop
n 1: jumping over the bar backwards and head first |
megaflop
(wn) | megaflop
n 1: (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a
computer system [syn: megaflop, MFLOP, {million
floating point operations per second}] |
mflop
(wn) | MFLOP
n 1: (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a
computer system [syn: megaflop, MFLOP, {million
floating point operations per second}] |
teraflop
(wn) | teraflop
n 1: (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a
computer system [syn: teraflop, {trillion floating point
operations per second}] |
d-type flip-flop
(foldoc) | D-type flip-flop
A digital logic device that stores the status of
its "D" input whenever its clock input makes a certain
transition (low to high or high to low). The output, "Q",
shows the currently stored value.
Compare J-K flip-flop.
(1995-03-28)
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flip-flop
(foldoc) | flip-flop
Eccles-Jordan circuit
A digital logic circuit that can be in one of two
states which it switches (or "toggles") between under
control of its inputs. It can thus be considered as a one bit
memory. Three types of flip-flop are common: the {SR
flip-flop}, the JK flip-flop and the D-type flip-flop (or
latch).
Early literature refers to the "Eccles-Jordan circuit" and the
"Eccles-Jordan binary counter", using two vacuum tubes as
the active (amplifying) elements for each bit of information
storage. Later implementations using bipolar transistors
could operate at up to 20 million state transitions per second
as early as 1963.
(1995-11-11)
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flop
(foldoc) | FLOP
1. An early system on the IBM 701.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1994-11-14)
2. Erroneous singular of FLOPS.
(2005-06-17)
|
floppy
(foldoc) | Floppy
A Fortran coding convention checker.
A later version can generate HTML.
See also Flow.
ffccc posted to comp.sources.misc volume 12.
(1996-08-23)
floppy disk
crunchy
diskette
double density
floppy
HD
high density
(Or "floppy", "diskette") A small,
portable plastic disk coated in a magnetisable substance used
for storing computer data, readable by a computer with a
floppy disk drive. The physical size of disks has shrunk from
the early 8 inch, to 5 1/4 inch ("minifloppy") to 3 1/2 inch
("microfloppy") while the data capacity has risen.
These disks are known as "floppy" disks (or diskettes) because
the disk is flexible and the read/write head is in physical
contact with the surface of the disk in contrast to "{hard
disks}" (or winchesters) which are rigid and rely on a small
fixed gap between the disk surface and the heads. Floppies
may be either single-sided or double-sided.
3.5 inch floppies are less floppy than the larger disks
because they come in a stiff plastic "envelope" or case, hence
the alternative names "stiffy" or "crunchy" sometimes used to
distinguish them from the floppier kind.
The following formats are used on IBM PCs and elsewhere:
Capacity Density Width
360K double 5.25"
720K double 3.5"
1.2M high 5.25"
1.44M high 3.5"
Double denisty and high density are usually abbreviated DD and
HD. HD 3.5 inch disks have a second hole in the envelope and
an overlapping "HD" logo.
(1996-08-23)
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floppy disc
(foldoc) | floppy disc
It's "floppy disk", not like "compact disc".
(2004-11-08)
|
floppy disk
(foldoc) | floppy disk
crunchy
diskette
double density
floppy
HD
high density
(Or "floppy", "diskette") A small,
portable plastic disk coated in a magnetisable substance used
for storing computer data, readable by a computer with a
floppy disk drive. The physical size of disks has shrunk from
the early 8 inch, to 5 1/4 inch ("minifloppy") to 3 1/2 inch
("microfloppy") while the data capacity has risen.
These disks are known as "floppy" disks (or diskettes) because
the disk is flexible and the read/write head is in physical
contact with the surface of the disk in contrast to "{hard
disks}" (or winchesters) which are rigid and rely on a small
fixed gap between the disk surface and the heads. Floppies
may be either single-sided or double-sided.
3.5 inch floppies are less floppy than the larger disks
because they come in a stiff plastic "envelope" or case, hence
the alternative names "stiffy" or "crunchy" sometimes used to
distinguish them from the floppier kind.
The following formats are used on IBM PCs and elsewhere:
Capacity Density Width
360K double 5.25"
720K double 3.5"
1.2M high 5.25"
1.44M high 3.5"
Double denisty and high density are usually abbreviated DD and
HD. HD 3.5 inch disks have a second hole in the envelope and
an overlapping "HD" logo.
(1996-08-23)
|
floppy disk drive
(foldoc) | disk drive
FDD
floppy disk drive
floppy drive
(Or "hard disk drive", "hard drive",
"floppy disk drive", "floppy drive") A peripheral device
that reads and writes hard disks or floppy disks. The
drive contains a motor to rotate the disk at a constant rate
and one or more read/write heads which are positioned over the
desired track by a servo mechanism. It also contains the
electronics to amplify the signals from the heads to normal
digital logic levels and vice versa.
In order for a disk drive to start to read or write a given
location a read/write head must be positioned radially over
the right track and rotationally over the start of the right
sector.
Radial motion is known as "seeking" and it is this which
causes most of the intermittent noise heard during disk
activity. There is usually one head for each disk surface and
all heads move together. The set of locations which are
accessible with the heads in a given radial position are known
as a "cylinder". The "seek time" is the time taken to
seek to a different cylinder.
The disk is constantly rotating (except for some floppy disk
drives where the motor is switched off between accesses to
reduce wear and power consumption) so positioning the heads
over the right sector is simply a matter of waiting until it
arrives under the head. With a single set of heads this
"rotational latency" will be on average half a revolution
but some big drives have multiple sets of heads spaced at
equal angles around the disk.
If seeking and rotation are independent, access time is seek
time + rotational latency. When accessing multiple tracks
sequentially, data is sometimes arranged so that by the time
the seek from one track to the next has finished, the disk has
rotated just enough to begin accessing the next track.
See also sector interleave.
Early disk drives had a capacity of a few megabytes and were
housed inside a separate cabinet the size of a washing
machine. Over a few decades they shrunk to fit a terabyte
or more in a box the size of a paperback book.
The disks may be removable disks; floppy disks always are,
removable hard disks were common on mainframes and
minicomputers but less so on microcomputers until the mid
1990s(?) with products like the Zip Drive.
A CD-ROM drive is not usually referred to as a disk drive.
Two common interfaces for disk drives (and other devices) are
SCSI and IDE. ST-506 used to be common in
microcomputers (in the 1980s?).
(1997-04-15)
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floppy drive
(foldoc) | disk drive
FDD
floppy disk drive
floppy drive
(Or "hard disk drive", "hard drive",
"floppy disk drive", "floppy drive") A peripheral device
that reads and writes hard disks or floppy disks. The
drive contains a motor to rotate the disk at a constant rate
and one or more read/write heads which are positioned over the
desired track by a servo mechanism. It also contains the
electronics to amplify the signals from the heads to normal
digital logic levels and vice versa.
In order for a disk drive to start to read or write a given
location a read/write head must be positioned radially over
the right track and rotationally over the start of the right
sector.
Radial motion is known as "seeking" and it is this which
causes most of the intermittent noise heard during disk
activity. There is usually one head for each disk surface and
all heads move together. The set of locations which are
accessible with the heads in a given radial position are known
as a "cylinder". The "seek time" is the time taken to
seek to a different cylinder.
The disk is constantly rotating (except for some floppy disk
drives where the motor is switched off between accesses to
reduce wear and power consumption) so positioning the heads
over the right sector is simply a matter of waiting until it
arrives under the head. With a single set of heads this
"rotational latency" will be on average half a revolution
but some big drives have multiple sets of heads spaced at
equal angles around the disk.
If seeking and rotation are independent, access time is seek
time + rotational latency. When accessing multiple tracks
sequentially, data is sometimes arranged so that by the time
the seek from one track to the next has finished, the disk has
rotated just enough to begin accessing the next track.
See also sector interleave.
Early disk drives had a capacity of a few megabytes and were
housed inside a separate cabinet the size of a washing
machine. Over a few decades they shrunk to fit a terabyte
or more in a box the size of a paperback book.
The disks may be removable disks; floppy disks always are,
removable hard disks were common on mainframes and
minicomputers but less so on microcomputers until the mid
1990s(?) with products like the Zip Drive.
A CD-ROM drive is not usually referred to as a disk drive.
Two common interfaces for disk drives (and other devices) are
SCSI and IDE. ST-506 used to be common in
microcomputers (in the 1980s?).
(1997-04-15)
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flops
(foldoc) | FLOPS
Floating-point operations per second.
Flops
The MFLOPS benchmark.
|
floptical
(foldoc) | floptical
(From "floppy disk" and "optical") A
floppy disk which uses an optical tracking mechanism to
improve the positioning accuracy of an ordinary magnetic head,
thereby allowing more tracks and greater density.
{Storage media FAQ
(http://cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/arch-storage/part1/faq.html)}.
(1995-03-15)
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gflops
(foldoc) | gigaflops
GFLOPS
gigaflop
(GFLOPS) One thousand million (10^9) floating point
operations per second.
One of them is strictly "one gigaflops" in the same way that
one mile per hour isn't 1 MP.
See prefix.
(1998-04-19)
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gigaflop
(foldoc) | gigaflops
GFLOPS
gigaflop
(GFLOPS) One thousand million (10^9) floating point
operations per second.
One of them is strictly "one gigaflops" in the same way that
one mile per hour isn't 1 MP.
See prefix.
(1998-04-19)
|
gigaflops
(foldoc) | gigaflops
GFLOPS
gigaflop
(GFLOPS) One thousand million (10^9) floating point
operations per second.
One of them is strictly "one gigaflops" in the same way that
one mile per hour isn't 1 MP.
See prefix.
(1998-04-19)
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jk flip-flop
(foldoc) | JK flip-flop
An edge triggered SR flip-flop with extra logic
such that only one of the R and S inputs is enabled at any
time. This prevents a race condition which can occur when
both inputs of an RS flip-flop are active at the same time.
In a JK flip-flop the R and S inputs are renamed J and K. The
set input (J) is only enabled when the flip-flop is reset and
K when it is set.
If both J and K inputs are held active then the outputs will
change ("togle") on each falling edge of the clock. JK
flip-flops can be used to build a binary counter with a
reset input.
(http://play-hookey.com/digital/logic7.html).
[Was it named after Jack Kilby?]
(2004-07-17)
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kiloflops
(foldoc) | kiloflops
1000 FLOPS.
See prefix.
(1998-09-07)
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machoflops
(foldoc) | machoflops
/mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the
inflated performance figures often quoted by computer
manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get
half the quoted speed.
See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
[Jargon File]
(1995-02-15)
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megaflop
(foldoc) | megaflop
Etymologically incorrect singular of "megaflops".
(1995-02-28)
|
megaflops
(foldoc) | megaflops
One million floating-point operations per second. A
common unit of measurement of performance of computers used
for numerical work.
(2000-08-03)
|
mflops
(foldoc) | MFLOPS
1. megaflops.
2. A benchmark which attemps to estimate a
system's floating-point "MFLOPS" rating for specific FADD,
FSUB, FMUL and FDIV instruction mixes.
C Source (ftp://ftp.nosc.mil/pub/aburto/flops20.c).
{Results
(http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/flops.html)},
(ftp://ftp.nosc.mil/pub/aburto/flops_1.tbl),
(ftp://ftp.nosc.mil/pub/aburto/flops_2.tbl),
(ftp://ftp.nosc.mil/pub/aburto/flops_3.tbl),
(ftp://ftp.nosc.mil/pub/aburto/flops_4.tbl).
(1994-11-14)
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microfloppies
(foldoc) | microfloppies
3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or
mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term
may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of
use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy
standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
[Jargon File]
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minifloppy
(foldoc) | minifloppy
5.25-inch vanilla floppy disks, as opposed to
3.5-inch or microfloppies and the now-obsolescent 8-inch
variety.
At one time, this term was a trademark of Shugart Associates
for their SA-400 minifloppy drive. Nobody paid any attention.
See stiffy.
(1996-05-03)
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petaflops
(foldoc) | petaflops
10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops.
As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and
plural as the S stands for seconds.
The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in {June
2008 (http://top500.org/list/2008/06/100)}. By {June 2012
(http://top500.org/list/2012/06/100)} there were 20.
(2013-04-27)
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rs flip-flop
(foldoc) | SR flip-flop
RS flip-flop
(Or "RS flip-flop") A "set/reset" flip-flop in
which activating the "S" input will switch it to one stable
state and activating the "R" input will switch it to the other
state.
The outputs of a basic SR flip-flop change whenever its R or S
inputs change appropriately. A clocked SR flip-flop has an
extra clock input which enables or disables the other two
inputs. When they are disabled the outputs remain constant.
If we connect two clocked SR flip-flops so that the Q and /Q
outputs of the first, "master" flip-flop drive the S and R
inputs of the second, "slave" flip-flop, and we drive the
slave's clock input with an inverted version of the master's
clock, then we have an edge-triggered RS flip-flop. The
external R and S inputs of this device are latched on one edge
(transition) of the clock (e.g. the falling edge) and the
outputs will only change on the next opposite (rising) edge.
If both R and S inputs are active (when enabled), a {race
condition} occurs and the outputs will be in an indeterminate
state. A JK flip-flop avoids this possibility.
(http://play-hookey.com/digital/logic4.html).
(1997-05-15)
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sr flip-flop
(foldoc) | SR flip-flop
RS flip-flop
(Or "RS flip-flop") A "set/reset" flip-flop in
which activating the "S" input will switch it to one stable
state and activating the "R" input will switch it to the other
state.
The outputs of a basic SR flip-flop change whenever its R or S
inputs change appropriately. A clocked SR flip-flop has an
extra clock input which enables or disables the other two
inputs. When they are disabled the outputs remain constant.
If we connect two clocked SR flip-flops so that the Q and /Q
outputs of the first, "master" flip-flop drive the S and R
inputs of the second, "slave" flip-flop, and we drive the
slave's clock input with an inverted version of the master's
clock, then we have an edge-triggered RS flip-flop. The
external R and S inputs of this device are latched on one edge
(transition) of the clock (e.g. the falling edge) and the
outputs will only change on the next opposite (rising) edge.
If both R and S inputs are active (when enabled), a {race
condition} occurs and the outputs will be in an indeterminate
state. A JK flip-flop avoids this possibility.
(http://play-hookey.com/digital/logic4.html).
(1997-05-15)
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teraflop
(foldoc) | teraflop
10^12 flops.
Intel beat Hitachi to the record of 1.06 teraflops, on 04 Dec
1996, unofficially in Beverton, Oregon, using 7264 {Pentium
Pro} chips.
(1997-07-21)
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teraflop club
(foldoc) | teraflop club
/te'r*-flop kluhb/ (From tera- and flops) A
mythical association of people who consume outrageous amounts
of computer time in order to produce a few simple pictures of
glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques. Caltech
professor James Kajiya is said to have been the founder.
[Jargon File]
(1997-07-21)
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machoflops
(jargon) | machoflops
/mach'oh·flops/, n.
[pun on megaflops, a coinage for ‘millions of FLoating-point Operations Per
Second’] Refers to artificially inflated performance figures often quoted
by computer manufacturers. Real applications are lucky to get half the
quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
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teraflop club
(jargon) | teraflop club
/te´r@·flop kluhb/, n.
[FLOP = Floating Point Operation] A mythical association of people who
consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few
simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques.
Caltech professor James Kajiya is said to have been the founder. Compare {
Knights of the Lambda Calculus}.
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