32 Bit Binary Counter

A 32 bit binary counter built across 8 digital trainer boards. It was constructed using mainly 74LS76 integrated circuits except for the board that contains the 7 segment display.

32 bits means that this device can count up to 4,294,967,295 in binary. Using a function generator at 2 MHz (2 million numbers a second) it takes approximately 35 minutes to complete the count. If the counter were to do one number a second (1 Hz) it would take 136.2 years.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Binary
• electronics
• gadget
• counter
• integrated
• circuit
• computer

[patrickikis]

Holy crap! That must have taken forever. I'm assuming your entire class had to create a 4-bit counter, and each of them were cascaded?

Well done, in any case.

[Cheezemonkey]

Thanks. You're actually pretty close on that guess. My lab partner and I built a 4 bit, then made another one and connected it, then got bored and added two more, and then my teacher encouraged us to grab 4 more from the class and that's how we ended up with 32 bits.

(The ones with all orange wires were the ones that my lab partner and I built.)

[321pocoyo]

You can do the same with one PIC