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Digital clock using 7490

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7490 Pinout Let's look at the 7490 briefly to see how it works. Here is the pinout: The 7490 is a  decade counter , meaning it is able to count from 0 to 9 cyclically, and that is its natural mode. That is, QA, QB, QC and QD are 4 bits in a binary number, and these pins cycle through 0 to 9,  QD QC  QB QA 0      0     0     0 0      0     0     1 0      0     1     0 0      0     1     1 0      1     0     0 0      1     0     1 0      1     1     0 0      1     1     1 1      0     0     0 1      0     0     1 You can also set the chip up to count up to other maximum n...