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The term flip-flop has historically referred generically to both level-triggered (asynchronous, transparent, or opaque) and edge-triggered (synchronous, or clocked) circuits that store a single bit of data using gates. [1] Modern authors reserve the term flip-flop exclusively for edge-triggered storage elements and latches for level-triggered ones.
In most VLSI devices, a large portion of power dissipation is due to the clock network and clocked sequential elements, which can account for anywhere between 25% - 40% of the total power in a design. Sequential elements, latches, and flip-flops dissipate power when there is switching in their internal capacitance.
The output of a flip-flop is constant until a pulse is applied to its "clock" input, upon which the input of the flip-flop is latched into its output. In a synchronous logic circuit, an electronic oscillator called the clock generates a string (sequence) of pulses, the "clock signal".
As states, the difference between a latch and a flip-flop is that a latch doesn't have a clock signal, and a flip-flop does. Yes, you can apply an oscillating signal on a latch's inputs an say "this is a clock".
Static random-access memory (static RAM or SRAM) is a type of random-access memory (RAM) that uses latching circuitry (flip-flop) to store each bit. SRAM is volatile memory; data is lost when power is removed. The static qualifier differentiates SRAM from dynamic random-access memory (DRAM):
A multivibrator is an electronic circuit used to implement a variety of simple two-state [1] [2] [3] devices such as relaxation oscillators, timers, latches and flip-flops. The first multivibrator circuit, the astable multivibrator oscillator, was invented by Henri Abraham and Eugene Bloch during World War I. It consisted of two vacuum tube ...
An edge-triggered flip-flop can be created by arranging two gated latches in a master–slave configuration. It is so named because the master latch controls the slave latch's value and forces the slave latch to hold its value, as the slave latch always copies its new value from the master latch.
Flip-flop and latch are not the same; so, they deserve separate pages (as it is). Flip-flop and latch are closely related; so, the two pages have to be closely related as well. The latch precedes chronologically the flip-flop. Eccles and Jordan have invented a latch, not a flip-flop; so, the data about their patent have to be placed on Latch.