Simple counter/clock

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Counting circuit consists of modified astable multivibrator circuit with three NAND, master-slave data flip flops connected as series toggle flip flops, thus I have 4-bit counter. The dtl gates have LEDs instead of pairs of conventional diodes to slightly save on part count and cost. In addition, this scheme provides visuals for gate working.

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Elements of counter and decoder are stacked and wired together.

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Components

14 × Yellow LEDs

28 × Red LEDs

2 × Green LEDs

3 × Blue LEDs

224 × Diodes 1N4148

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Finished!
Pavel • 04/22/2017 at 08:00 • 1 comment

The thing is now complete and working!
Solution is found!
Pavel • 04/20/2017 at 03:56 • 0 comments

The humble diode AND was not to blame after all, it was prior wiring that was faulty.
Here are simplified schematics with voltages:
1) original wiring:
collector of Q1 was wired directly to base of Q2, to achieve second inversion, thus making buffer; simultaneously from the same collector was the tap to the AND gate of decoder, as inverted input. Failed. the solution was to make this into two full-fledged invertors, and after this modification all started to work as it was intended to.
2) corrected wiring:
Problem with output logic levels
Pavel • 04/14/2017 at 04:51 • 0 comments

For decoder I used simplest diode 4AND logic gates (image), assuming they would work properly, and give +Vcc for high and 0.6V for low.
Unfortunately, output for HIGH is measly 1.6-1.7V and it is too low for driving display unit.
I am still cannot understand, why is it so.