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A modular Dekatron Simulator for decade counting

daves-dev-labDave's Dev Lab 09/26/2018 at 01:366 Comments

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Artem Kashkanov wrote 09/26/2018 at 10:58 point

As I correctly understand this sim can't do reversed count  as a real one?

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Dave's Dev Lab wrote 09/26/2018 at 16:15 point

that is correct. pretty much all of the dekatron's used in computing applications were used only in increment mode. i did assume that some people might want decrement in the future, so i have plans drawn up for a design that supports both increment and decrement.

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Artem Kashkanov wrote 09/26/2018 at 20:55 point

Neither I :)

I want to use presettable Up/Down counters on dekatrons in my DekatronPC project. I still didn't start any schematic investigations for this task, but remember that somewhere reference schema of reversible counter was noticed.

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Dave's Dev Lab wrote 09/28/2018 at 05:48 point

i am not sure i understand your comment, but to do a dekatron sim that support presettable with up/down support would require you to use either multiple chips, or something like a  small FPGA/CPLD. there is certainly room on the back side of the board for additional logic, but it does make assembly a lot harder...

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Artem Kashkanov wrote 09/28/2018 at 07:08 point

Who talking about dekatron Simluator? I want to build up/down counter on the real dekatrons :)

But in one thing you was right - reversible require a lot of additional logic both to sim and the real one. 

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Dave's Dev Lab wrote 09/28/2018 at 16:21 point

ahh ok, now i understand your statement!

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