Digital Clock by Using Counters: Submitted By: Sugguna Mohan Krishna E C E / 1 8 / 0 1
Digital Clock by Using Counters: Submitted By: Sugguna Mohan Krishna E C E / 1 8 / 0 1
Digital Clock by Using Counters: Submitted By: Sugguna Mohan Krishna E C E / 1 8 / 0 1
by using Counters
S U B M I T T E D B Y:
ECE/18/01
Introduction
• We know that 60 seconds equal to 1 minute and 60 minutes equal to 1 hour. Hence the
minute section is derived by second section and hour section by the minute section.
• Each of the minute and second section has been designed to give a count from 00 to 59 after
which it resets to 00. And the hour section to give a count from 00 to 23 hours after which it
resets to 00.
• For each cycle of 00 to 59 in second section the minute section increases its count by 1.
Similarly, for each cycle of 00 to 59 in minute section the hour section increases it’s count by
1. In this way when the clock reaches 23hrs. 59mins. 59secs. each of the section resets to 00
giving us a display 00.00.00 popularly known as the 0th hour.
Module Structure
The entire project has been divided into three modules.
Minutes Module
• Repeating the same circuit as that of the second section, but here the output should count from 00 to 59
with a frequency of1 pulse per minute.
• Here pulse input will given from the reset pulse of seconds block.
Hours Module
• Designing the circuit in such a way so that the output resets to 00 automatically after displaying 23:59:59.
Here the counting proceeds with a frequency of one pulse per hour.
• Here pulse input will given from the reset pulse of seconds block.
Block Diagram
0 1 1 0
• After the counter reaches to this position we have to reset the counter to 0.
• Reset pins active high.
Minute's Module:
• The Minute section is nothing but an exact replica of the second’s section
as the theory and implementation is the same with one major exception
i.e. the reset pulse from the second’s section is applied to the input pulse of
the minute’s section it’s frequency is 1 pulse per minute.
Fig
Hours Module:
• For, hours the count is from 00-23-00. it means we need mod-24 counter.
• It can be done by cascading two 7490 IC’s i.e. two mod-10 counters. This one will count from
00-99. but we need only 00-23 so we have to reset the counters after it reaches 24.
0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
•
• This will give active hight signal after the counter reaches the count 24.
• So, this will be used as our reset pulse to the hours block counters.
• Here the input for hours block is the reset pulse of minutes block it’s frequency is 1 pulse per
hour.
Final Circuit Diagram