Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology

Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

ETE 206
Digital Logic Design Sessional

Project Title :
Designing and implementing a stopwatch using ICs and
seven segment display

Submitted By : Submitted To:

1908009, 1908010, Khadija Akhter
1908011, 1908012, Assistant Professor
1908013, 1908014, Department of Electronics and
1908015, 1908043 Telecommunication Engineering, CUET

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 OBJECTIVES
 FUNCTIONALITY
 REQUIRED COMPONENTS
 CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
 METHODOLOGY
 WORKING OF IC’s
 APPLICATIONS
 LIMITATIONS
 CONCLUTIONS
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OBJECTIVES
 To design and implementation of circuit of a stop watch .

 To understand the operation of the 555 timer for generating clock

pulse.

 To understand how the MOD-10 Counter works and generate

BCD Code .

 To understand the process of conversion of BCD to 7 Segment display

input.

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 WHAT ARE FUNCTIONS OF OUR PROJECT?

RESET
COUNTING RANGE
There is a push button which
This Stop Watch can
used to reset and start
count from 00 to 99
counting from the 00. By
putting reset pin 1.
UPGRADABILIT
START-PAUSE Y
A slider is used to on clock Cascading the another 4033 IC
pulse and pause the Clock and 7Segment Display we can
pulse to 1 state. increase counting range from
99 to 999 .

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REQUIRED COMPONENTS

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IC’s Resistors & Capacitors
1. 7 Segment Decoder (4033) 150ohm, 100k, 33k, 56k
2. 555 Timer
10uF
3. Voltage Regulator (7805)

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Displays Others
7 Segment Cathode Display On/off Switch, Push Button, 9V
Battery, LED, Breadboard,
Connecting Wire
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 CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
Voltage
Regulator

IC 4033
555 Timer

Seven
Segment
Display
Figure : Circuit Diagram of the 555 Timer
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 METHODOLOGY
• When the voltage is provided ,the 555 timer generated one second
1 clock pulse in every one second

• After getting to the negative edge of the clock pulse the first ic 4033 is
2 activated to begin the counting process

• BCD code is produced with the help of IC 4033

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• The first IC 4033 updates up to 9 and then the second IC 4033 starts
4 updating itself. This continues until both of the displays reach 99

• The BCD is being converted to seven segment input and displayed

5 with the help of the seven segment displays
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 Q: WHY 555 TIMER NEEDED IN OUR CIRCUIT?

 To Produce the Clock Pulse after every

1s Second .
R1 Clock
 The time Period of Clock pulse is : Pulse
T= 0.693*(R1 + 2R2) *C
R2
 Taking R1=33k, R2=56k, C=10uF, Get the value
of T is 1.00485s which approximately 1s.
C
 The clock pulse goes to the counter, So that
Counter will update its value in every 1s . Figure : Circuit Diagram of
555 Timer Portion

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 WHY NEED IC4033 ?
When given value 1,
Takes clock reset’s the counter and
 To Do the counting Process and pulse start from 0
produce BCD output

 To Convert BCD to Seven

IC
Segment Display input 4033

When value of 1st IC greater Inputs of the

than 9, then a clock pulse goes 7 segment
to 2nd IC’s clock i/p display

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 Q: HOW DOES THE MOD-10 COUNTER WORKS?
Output of
Input of J,K J-K
is always 1 Flipflop

QA=1 and QD=1 an

pulse 1 then o/p is

Clock
Pulse

Output of First J-K is Figure : Circuit Diagram MOD-10 Counter

J-K
Clock of 2nd Flip-flop Flipflop

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Q: HOW DOES THE MOD-10 COUNTER WORKS?

Clock

0 0 0 0
QA

QA

QA
Figure : Circuit Diagram MOD-10 Counter

QA

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Q: HOW DOES THE MOD-10 COUNTER WORKS?

Clock

1 0 0 0
QA

QA

QA
Figure : Circuit Diagram MOD-10 Counter

QA

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Q: HOW DOES THE MOD-10 COUNTER WORKS?

Clock

0 1 0 0
QA

QA

QA
Figure : Circuit Diagram MOD-10 Counter
QA
How zero comes after 9 and next
counter updates?

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 BCD TO SEVEN SEGEMENT DISPLAY?
How to show BCD 0101 (5) to the 7 Segment Display?
a
a=1
QA=1 b=0 f
Seven b
Segment c=1 g
QB=0 Decoder d=1
e=0 e c
QC=1
f=1
QD=0 g=1
d
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BCD TO SEVEN SEGEMENT DISPLAY?
0 a1b1c1d1e1f1g0
QA QB QC QD
0 0 0 What is the most efficient equation to find
0 0 0 1 0110000 the value of a w.r.t. QA,QB,QC,QD?
0 0 1 0 1101101
a
0 0 1 1 1111001 QC QD
0 1 0 0 0110011 QAQB
0 1 0 1 1011011 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 0 1011111 0 1 1 1
0 1 1 1 1110000 x x x x
1 0 0 0 1111111 1 1 x x
1 0 0 1 1111011
1 0 1 0 xxxxxxx
1 0 1 1 xxxxxxx
1 1 0 0 xxxxxxx a =QA+QB+QAQD+QA’QD’
1 1 0 1 xxxxxxx b= . . . .
1 1 1 0 xxxxxxx c= . . . .
1 1 1 1 xxxxxxx
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APPLICATIONS
 Laboratory experiments to measure the amount of time
elapses as experiment data.
  In sports events like sprints,running , swimming, any type
of racing .

 Setting timer for cooking .  

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LIMITATIONS
 This stop watch has 4.85miliseconds of error in
every count.
 Here we can only counts the 00 to 99 by this
project.

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CONCLUSION
The project has been done with the intension to learn and gain more
practical knowledge about digital logic designing and implementing.
The working principles of different devices with integrated building
blocks have been thoroughly understood by performing the project.

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THANKS!

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