lord loh.
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I am trying to design a curcuit with a counter that uses the 7493 binary counter. My text book has the pin out diagramme and it says that the counter is a negetive edge triggered counter....
My circuit consists of a differentiator that sends a pulse to a 555 monostable multivbrator that generates a pulse for the 7493 counter.
The result is increment in 2s. The count goes from 0 to 1 to 2 and stops. This occurs if the 555 out put is generally low and goes high and then low on receiving a spike from the differentiator circuit (R and C).
The problem was avoided only by using a 1714 schmitt triggered NOT gate.
I still do not understand why this occurs. The counter could not be triggered on both edges (or can it?) Is it level triggered ?(how can it be when the book mentiones it a edge triggered?)
Please help....
Thank you.
My circuit consists of a differentiator that sends a pulse to a 555 monostable multivbrator that generates a pulse for the 7493 counter.
The result is increment in 2s. The count goes from 0 to 1 to 2 and stops. This occurs if the 555 out put is generally low and goes high and then low on receiving a spike from the differentiator circuit (R and C).
The problem was avoided only by using a 1714 schmitt triggered NOT gate.
I still do not understand why this occurs. The counter could not be triggered on both edges (or can it?) Is it level triggered ?(how can it be when the book mentiones it a edge triggered?)
Please help....
Thank you.