ECE 233

DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN LAB

Counters
Course Instructor
Dr. Daljeet Singh
Domain: Wireless Communication
School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Lovely Professional University
 Sequential circuits

It consists of a combinational circuit to which storage

elements are connected to form a feed back path.
Counters
• A sequential circuit that goes through a prescribed sequence of states upon
the application of input pulses is called a counter.
• The input pulses, called count pulses, may be clock pulses.
• In a counter, the sequence of states may follow a binary count or any other
sequence of states.
• Counters are found in almost all the equipment containing digital logic.
• They are used for counting the number of occurrences of an event and are
useful for generating timing sequences to control operations in a digital
system.
Since there are eight states, the number of
flip-flops required would be three.
 J0 = K0 = 1
J1 = K1 = Q0
J2 = K2 = Q1 * Q0
74ls76 dual j-k flip-flop
Counter using T flip-flops
Asynchronous 4-bit UP counter
Asynchronous 4-bit DOWN counter
Asynchronous 3-bit up/down counters
Thanks