hey so, I want to count some clock pulses,
1084 of them for example,
and I was thinking, with a 74HC4040 i could take the ÷1024 output, and then with some gates get the ÷32, ÷16, ÷8, ÷4 to make up the remaining 60 pulses.
but from reading the forums here, it seems the 74hc4059 ÷ by n counter might be the way to go...
to use the ÷10 mode and make up the remaining 024 counts all on the same chip without a bunch of external gates.
so here's my questions. if I wanted to count to 1084 with a hc4059, and then count to, say, 41 immediately after (before looping back to a 1084 count),
would there be a trick for using remaining flip-flops on the chip to achieve that?
or might one be able to periodically change the jam programming of the 4059 with some kind of shift-register?
and if so, what kind of shift-register might i be looking at?
i'm assuming some kind of parallel-in-parallel-out arrangement, but i'm a bit lost as to the details there.
and also, if it's possible in a more or less routine kind of way,
what about stringing together, say, 4 or 5 different pulse counts into a loop?
1084 of them for example,
and I was thinking, with a 74HC4040 i could take the ÷1024 output, and then with some gates get the ÷32, ÷16, ÷8, ÷4 to make up the remaining 60 pulses.
but from reading the forums here, it seems the 74hc4059 ÷ by n counter might be the way to go...
to use the ÷10 mode and make up the remaining 024 counts all on the same chip without a bunch of external gates.
so here's my questions. if I wanted to count to 1084 with a hc4059, and then count to, say, 41 immediately after (before looping back to a 1084 count),
would there be a trick for using remaining flip-flops on the chip to achieve that?
or might one be able to periodically change the jam programming of the 4059 with some kind of shift-register?
and if so, what kind of shift-register might i be looking at?
i'm assuming some kind of parallel-in-parallel-out arrangement, but i'm a bit lost as to the details there.
and also, if it's possible in a more or less routine kind of way,
what about stringing together, say, 4 or 5 different pulse counts into a loop?