Digital clock with Hours , Minutes

and Seconds + Alarm System

Harsh Mittal
Section-KM054
Roll No-A09
ECE152: VLSI Programming Skill
INTRODUCTION
• Alarm Clocks are very useful devices in today’s busy life. They are
designed to make a signal / alarm at a specific time. The use of digital
alarmclocks has increased over years with development in electronics.
• The advantage of digital alarm clocks over analogue alarm clocks is
that they require less power, the time can be set or reset easily and
displays the time in digits. Design of a simple digital alarm clock is
explained here.
• Using this digital alarm clock, time can be displayed in 24 HR format
using an LED display and alarm can be set to a specific time.
Alternatively, the digital alarm clock circuit can also be used to turn
ON/OFF and electrical appliance after a specific time.
DISCUSSION
 Circuit Components

• IC1 – LM 8560
• IC2 – LM 386
• Duplex LED Display
• T1 – 0-12V / 500mA Transformer
• D1, D2, D3 – IN4001
• R1 – 100K
• R2, R3 – 120
• R4 – 91K
• R5 – 10
• P1 – 10K Potentiometer
• C1 – 470µF
• C2, C3 – 10nF
• C4 – 10µF
• C5, C6 – 100nF
• C7 – 100µF
• B1 – Buzzer
• S1, S2, S3, S4 – Switches
WORKING OF CIRCUIT
A digital alarm clock is a very useful device as it can display
the current time as well as function as an alarming device.
The circuit shown above can act as a simple digital alarm
clock without requirement of any programming.
The components required and the complexity of the circuit
are less. The working of the above shown digital alarm clock
is as follows.
As explained in the component description, the heart of the
digital alarm clock circuit is the digital clock IC LM8560. The
input from the mains is given to the transformer which
converts the input voltage to 12V AC.
 A diode (D1) and a capacitor (C1) are used to convert this AC voltage to DC
and supplied to the Vdd (Pin 20) of the IC1. IC1 (LM8560) works at a
frequency of 50/60 Hz. This signal can be supplied from the mains supply
using the resistor R1 to the Pin 25 of the IC1.
In relation to the input of the IC1, corresponding inputs to the cathode of
the display are given through the diodes (D2 and D3). After switching on the
power, we need to set the time. This is the current time to be displayed. In
order to set the current time, we use the switches S1 and S2.
Switch S1 is used to set Hours and S2 is used to set Minutes. LM8560
automatically triggers the display connected to it and the time will be
displayed on the duplex LED display.
The duplex display is a 4-bit seven segment LED display, where two bits are
for displaying the Hours and two bits are for displaying Minutes and the
Hour and Minute bits are separated by a colon.
APPLICATIONS

• . Digital timers are used in the applications of large industries

and common consumer applications.
• These timers are mainly used in equipment for process control
to help in process regulation.
• These are used in industries to record the equipment’s age and
use & they are used like consumer electronics for recreational &
household use.
• Digital timers are broadly used in a variety of industrial
processes for controlling devices’ timing and also to check the
life cycles of equipment.
Advantages
The advantages of a digital timer include the following.

. Portable
. Battery Operated
. Less Cost
. Highly Effective
. Less Weight
. Provides Exact Measurement
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