4017 DECADE COUNTER 4017 is an integrated circuit which has been designed to count pulses. It has 16 pins and looks like any other 16 pin integrated circuit. To understand well let look into the pin connections of 4017 decade counter. 1. Pin connections: The 4017 decade counter has ten outputs which go HIGH in sequence when a source of pulses is connected to the CLOCK input and when suitable logic levels are applied to the RESET and ENABLE inputs. There are 10 output pins present in this decade counter. Vss for 3 - 15 volts is given at pin 8 . Ground is connected at pin 16 . Clock pulses are provided to pin 14 . RESET is connected on pin 15 . 2. Now what is a decade counter and how does it work? The counting action of decade counter can be well understood from the graph below. Just one of the individual outputs is HIGH at a time. This is quite different from the behavior of a BCD counter like the 45
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