ROBOTICS

Using a 74HC595
IC
Protoyping project

Submitted by: Lope V. Olaso III

 What is an 74HC595 IC
A 74HC595 IC is used to add more outputs
from a microcontroller. Microcontrollers have a limited
number of digital inputs. There are times when you want
to use more than the board supports or want to
consolidate the logic of monitoring which input was
used. You can use a 74HC595 to monitor many digital
inputs. It is also called a Shift register. Shift register is
used as Parallel to serial converter, which converts the
parallel data into serial data. It is utilized at the
transmitter section after Analog to Digital Converter ADC
block. Shift register is used as Serial to parallel converter,
which converts the serial data into parallel data.

Here is a list of the other uses of this particular IC

This IC is used to drive a number of LEDs

Servers

Capture & Hold Logic

Network Switches

Simple Data Conversion from Serial to Parallel

Controlling in Industries

Extend the GPIO Pin on an MCU/MPU

Electronic Devices

Power Infrastructure

Used in LED Matrix or Cube Projects

Used in Cascading Applications

Used for LCD Interfacing

This IC is truly amazing for just a chunk of silicon as

might others sees it that way
So, the focus of this project is centered on this
Particular IC to see what this IC can do

8 bit 74HC595 IC LED EMMITER

Components:
Jumper wires
 8× LED

3× 10kΩ resistor

8× 330Ω resistor

3× push button

Breadboard

9V battery

9V battery clip w/ circular plug

Power supply (5V output)

How it works:

There are 3
buttons in the circuit

Input: (LED ON) Hold

down Data button and press Clock as many times as you want (EX. Pressed clock
button 5 times) then release data. Now, pressing Latch will show what you
inputted

(LED OFF) Press Clock as many times as you want and press Latch

You can also express the outputted led data to binary

Binary- the only language digital computers understand

Its just a bunch of zeroes and ones in combination

Led on - 1

Led off - 0

As you can see, the

leds is outputting 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 (reverse it to get 00111111)

If you translate this output to numbers using the diagram below, it is clearly
outputting 63
You will need two
Of this circuits, some
Logic gates and
Connect them in a
Specific way to
create
A basic Addition
Calculator
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