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Purpose:This project was meant to put our multi-sims skills to produce a 0-60 counter using up and down counters, flip flops, and synchronous/ asynchronous counters.
Objective
The objective of this project was to create multiple circuits to work together to create a large counter to go from 0-60 and return to 0. Being that a single counter cannot count that high, one goes from 0-9 and the other goes from 0-6. Instead of having 2 clocks, the circuits require one clock that belongs to the 0-9 counter. Once it reaches 9, a signal is sent through an inverter gate to reverse the polarity and create an input for the clock of the circuit counting 0-6. All mechanisms requiring power could run on one VCC power source and one ground but I preferred to keep my wiring clean by having multiple power sources. The 0-6 counter that was utilized is a synchronous counter that sends all message signals simultaneously to make the delivery process much faster. The other circuit that was utilized was a Medium Scale Integration because it has a synchronous input ability. This means the data input will be loaded into the counter on the next rising edge of the clock when the when the load input is a type of logic. This is what allows the input to not be limited to just a clock. It also accepts the output from the 0-9 circuit to count up one each time when necessary. Being only necessary when the counter reaches 9 and resets back to zero making the collective counter hex displays the next 10’s place such a 10 20 40 40 50 60.