Digital Clock with Seconds and Alarm Time Display

October 13, 2013 By Engineeering Projects

Most of the digital clock available in website is only capable to display hour and minute
only. Now, here is a digital clock by that shows not only hour, minute and second but
also alarm time. Best Engineering Projects (BEP) verify the project Digital Clock with
Second and Alarm time display with the help of ten 7-segment display and clock chip
mm5387ANN.
Circuit Description of Digital Clock with Seconds and Alarm Timer Display

The entire circuit of Digital Clock with Second and Alarm Display is build around clock
chip IC (IC3) followed by CMOS decoder (IC1, and IC5), timer IC NE555 (IC2) and 14-
stage counter IC (IC4). Timer IC NE555 is used here as multivibrator which further
combined with CMOS decoder IC (IC1) to switches the two push-to-on switch for second
and alarm, output from pin 2 and 3 of IC1 is connected to pin 31 and 32 respectively in
order to switch second/alarm time display. The output pin 4, 3 and 2 of IC2 is connected
to transistor T2 through T4 respectively in order to ground all the 7-segment display.

The upper 3-pair of display (DIS1 through DIS6) is used to display hour, minutes and
second, where display 1 (DIS1) of hours used only two segment (b, c) of the LED to
display 1 when the hour display reaches 10 and above. The lower four 7-segment
display is used to display alarm time. As in hour display only two segment b and c of the
LED is used in order to display 1 in display 7 (DIS7). The f and e segment of DIS7 are
used to represent AM and PM respectively for the alarm time display.

A crystal oscillator of 4.9152 MHz is connected to pin 10 and 11 of IC4 as shown in

circuit diagram which divides the oscillating frequency by 16,384 times and 300 Hz
clock pulse is obtained which further fed to IC5 which divides 300 Hz clock pulse by 6 in
order to obtain 50 Hz clock pulse and given to pin 36 of IC3. IC3 further divide it and 1
Hz signal is obtained at pin 39 and given to LED1 and LED2 in order to blink for AM and
PM.

Pin 1 and 40 of IC3 are connected to f and e pins respectively of the ten digit of hour of
the alarm display (DIS7) which is further connected to anode of LED1 and LED2 as
shown in circuit diagram for blinking of the segment of DIS7 and LED1/ LED2. Thus,
AM/PM for alarm time and ormal time (DIS1-DIS6) can be known from the blinking of f/e
segment of DIS7 and the blinking of LED1/LED2, respectively.

Setting up the clock

Normal mode. The functions of various keys (switches) used in the normal mode are
as follows:

SW4 (sleep): Used to display sleep timing in upper as well as lower 7-segment minutes
LEDs, i.e. DIS3-DIS4 and DIS9 – DIS10, simultaneously. This output can be used to
control external appliances such as radios and TV sets from the sleep output.

SW5 (alarm): Used for setting alarm timings.

SW6 (alarm off): Used to turn off the alarm timings. (It reactivates automatically after
every 24 hours.).
SW7 (seconds): Used to display units and tens digits of the seconds display along with
the units digit of the minutes display in the upper 7-segment LEDs.

SW8 (snooze): Used to put off the alarm for a short duration and activate it after every
nine minutes for five times; this switch is not shown in the circuit.

Setting mode. When switch SW 1 is in the setting mode, the display shows only hours
and minutes in the upper 7-segment displays, and seconds and alarm time displays
remain off. The functions of various keys (switches) used in the setting mode are
as follows:

SW2 (fast setting): Used for fast setting in increment mode only for hour, minute, and
alarm time displays.

SW3 (slow setting): Used for slow setting in increment mode only for hour, minute, and
alarm displays.

SW4 (sleep): Used to set sleep timing (in minutes). Note that it is a down-counting
timer. When it reaches ’00’, the appliance connected to the sleep output will either
turn on or off.

SW6 (alarm off): Used to turn off the alarm timing. This pin should be connected to
VSS to make the alarm silent for a day or more.

SW8 (snooze): Used to put off the alarm for a short duration and activate it after every
nine minutes for five times; this switch is not shown in the circuit.
Setting of alarm: Keep the switch SW 1 in the normal mode. Use fast/slow button switch
to adjust the display to the desired alarm timing. Now move switch S1 to the setting
mode and again use fast/slow button to adjust the exact normal timing in the upper
display. Again move switch S1 to the normal mode.
PCB DESIGN

Fig 2: Actual-size, single-side PCB for the clock circuit

Fig 3: Component layout for the PCB in Fig 2

Fig 4: Actual-size, solder-side PCB for display circuit

Fig 5: Actual-size, component-side PCB for display circuit
 Fig 6: Component layout for the double-side PCB of display unit

PARTS LIST OF DIGITAL CLOCK WITH SECONDS AND ALARM TIME DISPLAY

Resistor (all ¼-watt, ± 5% Carbon)

R1 = 10 KΩ, R2 = 150 Ω, R3 – R7 = 15 KΩ, R8 = 3.3 MΩ.

Capacitors

C1 = 0.01 µF, C2 = 4.7 µF/16V, C3 = 1000 µF/16V, C4 = 470 µF/16V, C5 – C7 = 0.22 µF, C8, C9 = 47 pF.

Semiconductors

IC1, IC5 = CD4017BE (decade counter/divider), IC2 = NE555 (timer), IC3 = MM5387 (clock chip),

IC4 = CD4060 (14 stage binary counter), T1 – T5 = BC547 (npn transistor), D1 – D6 = 1N4001 (Rectifier
Diode), D7, D8 = 1N4148 (Fast Switching Diode)

Miscellaneous

XTAL1 = 4.9152MHz crystal, LED1, LED2 = 5mm dia. Red LED, DIS1 – DIS10 = LT543 common-cathode 7-
segment display, SW1 = SPDT switch, S1 – S7 = Push –to-on switch.
X1 = 230V AC primary to 4.5V-0-4.5V secondary, 500mA transformer, B1 = 9V PP# battery

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