Difference between Combinational Circuit and Sequential Circuit:

The difference between combinational circuit and sequential circuit is given in table below

Sl no Combinational Circuit Sequential Circuit
1 In combinational circuits, the output variables are at all times dependent on the combination of input variables. In sequential circuits, the output variables dependent not only on the present input variables but they also depend up on the past history of these input variables.
2 Memory unit is not required in combinational circuits. Memory unit is required to store the past history of input variables in the sequential circuit.
3 Combinational circuits are faster in speed because the delay between input and output is due to propagation delay of gates. Sequential circuits are slower than the combinational circuits.
4 Combinational circuits are easy to design. Sequential circuits are comparatively harder to design.
5 Parallel adder is a combinational circuit. Serial adder is a sequential circuit.