Please Help, Timer circuit needed

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weller racing

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Please Help, Frying my brain trying to figure this out without using processor. I need to be able to activate a voice mesage one year after setting the counter circuit. Need minimal componant count. Using ISD 1420 for message.
 
How accurate do you need to be? If you set a 555 timer for 1 second rate, it is only necessary to divide by 31,536,000. The CD4020 divides by 2^14 = 16384, two CD4020 cascaded will divide by 268,435,500; that is more than enough. The binary number for 31,536,000 is: 1111000010011001110000000, MSB on the left, LSB on the right. The LSB is Q0, so the next digit is Q1 which is pin 9 of the first CD4020. Q13 (pin 2) corresponds to the 5th 1 from the right. Unfortunatly, the next 1 in the binary number corresponds to Q16 (Q2 in the second CD4020) but Q2 is not available, so it will be necessary to use a different IC for the second divider. The CD4040 brings out all 12 Qs, so use that. If you AND all the 1s, the result will be a 1 in one year. For better accuracy, you could use a crystal oscillator and divide down to a 1 Hz rate for the clock.
 
I did this design quickly, I think it is right, let me know if you have a problem. You may have to have the crystal custom made, but that is not expensive (last time I did it anyway).

Oops! I need to add an initial reset to the counter. I tried to change the schematic but the system timed out and it is late.
 

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