Sequential Circuits

Synchronous Counter

In synchronous counters we have the same clock signal to all the flip-flops. MOD-4 Synchronous counter: We discuss here a 2-bit synchronous counter. We have the circuit for this as:s We have the initial outputs as Q0=0 & Q1=0. Whenever the first negative clock edge comes O/P of 1st FF becomes 1 as we have J & […]

Sequential Circuits

Q: Design custom ripple counter

Q- Design the ripple counter whose output sequence is represented by the following state diagram. Ans: As we can see that it is a down counter so we’ll be using Q bar of all flip-flops as clock to next flip-flops (negative edged FFs). We draw the table as  Q2         Q1          Q0                          OUTPUT 0              0              0                              0 […]

Sequential Circuits

Q: Design custom ripple counter

Q- Design the ripple counter whose output sequence is represented by the following state diagram. Ans: As it is a 3-bit counter hence we firstly arrange 3 FFs and now we design the combinational circuit to reset the counter at appropriate point.  Q2         Q1          Q0                          OUTPUT 0              0              0                              0 0              0              1                              1 0              1              […]

Sequential Circuits

Q: MOD 6 Counter

Q- Can we design a MOD-6 counter using the above method? Ans:  We firstly draw the state diagram And now we draw the table to represent the desired output of the combinational circuit to reset FFs as: Q2          Q1          Q0                          OUTPUT 0              0              0                              1 0              0              1                              1 0              1              0                              1 0              1              […]

Sequential Circuits

Ripple counter

We can attach more flip-flops to make larger counter. We just use more flip-flops in cascade and give output of first to the clock of 2nd and output of 2nd to clock of 3rd and so on. This way every flip-flop would divide frequency of the clock by 2 and hence we can obtain a divide by larger […]