Blog: What is the difference between asynchronous and synchronous counters?

What is the difference between asynchronous and synchronous counters?
Synchronous refers to the situation when all the interrelated devices has some common and fixed time relationship. Whereas in Asynchronous refers to the situation when the situation is opposite.

In Synchronous counters all the filp-flops have same clock pulse and in Asynchronous counters flip-flops does not change state at the exactly same time because they don't have common clock pulse.