Difference between FIFO and circular buffer

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Circular buffer is used to transfer data between clocks with same frequency and different phase. FIFO is used between asynchronous clocks.
 

Circular Buffer is a kind of method to implement a synchronous fifo.
Other type is asynchronous fifo in which read and write clock have no definite phase and frequency relationship between them.
 

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