Experiment 5 Seven segment displays

Experiment 5
Seven segment displays
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Seven segment displays

Can be Common anode or common cathode - We will be using
common anode. It has seven LEDs, with anodes connected
together.
CA (Common anode)
a
f g b
e d c
a b c d e f g

Typical operating point of each segment LED varies from 1.6V to

2V at 20mA operating current. The common anode is
connected to VCC . It is not an IC, so it does not have a
ground.
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7447 - BCD to seven segment decoder and driver

a
b
c
d 7447
e BCD Input
f
g
dp

The resistors connected between 7447 and the seven segment

display should be chosen so that the current is less than 20mA at
nominal operating point. Use 330Ω resistors.
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Why is a 7447 needed? Open collector gates

▶ If the switch is closed, there

is a current through the
resistor and the output is
External
resistor low
▶ Actually there is a transistor
Collector
Left open with the collector terminal
left open. If the input is
such that the transistor is
OFF (open switch), there is
no current and output is
high. Otherwise it is low.
The transistor can sink a lot more current than the conventional
TTL output. 7447 is an open collector gate.
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Experiment 5

▶ Design a circuit to convert a 4-bit binary number to its BCD

representation. The output should be displayed using two
seven segment displays.
▶ First design the circuit using the components you have and
get it checked by your TA. Try to wire the entire circuit in a
single breadboard. Keep this circuit as is, you will need it
for future experiments.
▶ Look at table on page 3 of the uploaded datasheet.
Understand ripple blanking(RBI ) and and use it so that single
digits do not have a leading zero i.e., for example 7 should not
be displayed as 07. Also understand what it means to say the
RBI input is active low.