DEPARTMENT OF

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SRM IST.
MINI PROJECT REPORT
15EC204J LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
EVEN Semester, 2018-19

Sub. Code & Name :

Year & Semester : II Year, IV SEM

Project Title :

Supervisor :

Team Members (register numbers) :

Reg. No
Mark split up RA1711004010609 RA1711004010631

Novelty in the project work

(1 marks)
Level of understanding of the design formula (2
marks)
Contribution to the project
(1 Marks)
Report writing (1 Marks)

Total (5 Marks)

Date:
Signature of Supervisor

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 Traffic Light Control

OBJECTIVE:

The Traffic Light Control is built around IC 555 timer which will provide the instruction to the driver
whether to drive through the intersection or yield at the intersection.

ABSTRACT:

As we all know, the name of the project is “Traffic Light Control”. The fundamental idea of this
simple electronic device is to control the traffic. It can be used to avoid the vehicular collisions and
traffic jams. This project is just a one-way traffic controller, although it can be further modified as
well. Project will work in a way, it provides the instruction to the driver whether to drive through the
intersection or yield at the intersection.

INTRODUCTION:

Traffic Lights are used to control the vehicular traffic. In the modern era, everyone has different
types of vehicles resulting in rise to the numbers of vehicles. That’s why traffic lights are
mandatory to avoid the traffic jams and accidents. There are three lights in the traffic signal,
having different message for the drivers. Red light (upper one) asks the driver to yield at the
intersection, green light (last one) gives the driver free license to drive through the intersection
whereas the yellow light (middle one) alerts the driver to wait if the next light is red one or get
ready to go / turn the engine ON if the green light is next.
Traffic light has proved to be an amazing way to stop the vehicular collisions and control the traffic
jams in today’s modern era where everyone owns the different types of vehicles.

HARDWARE REQUIREMENT/DESCRIPTION:

1. 9V Battery (Input Battery)

2. 100K, 22K and 330 ohm resistors
3. 1µF, 10µF and 2.2mF capacitors
4. Six 1N4148 diodes
5. 555 timer IC (As a pulse generator)
6. 4017 IC counter (Main IC of the circuit)
7. 1M Potentiometer (Controls the timing of pulse generated by 555 timer)
8. Red, yellow and green LEDs. (Output)

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM:

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 APPROACH/METHODOLOGY:

This traffic light is made with the help of counter IC, which is mainly used for Sequential Circuits.
We can also call it as Sequential Traffic Lights. Sequential circuits are used to count the numbers
in the series.
Coming to the working principle of Traffic Lights, the main IC is 4017 counter IC which is used to
glow the Red, yellow and green LED respectively. 555 timer acts as a pulse generator providing
an input to the 4017 counter IC. Timing of glow of certain lights totally depends upon the 555
timer’s pulse, which we can control via the Potentiometer so if you want to change the time of
glow, you can do so by varying the potentiometer, having the responsibility for the
timing. LEDs are not connected directly with 4017 counter, as the lights won’t be stable. We have
used the combination of 1N4148 diodes and the LEDs in order to get the appropriate output. Main
drawback of this circuit is that you can never have an exact timing with this, however you will have
best estimated.

CONCLUSIONS:

Thus the Traffic Light Control is built around IC 555 timer which will provide the instruction to the
driver whether to drive through the intersection or yield at the intersection.

REFERENCES:
https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2014/10/traffic-light-control-electronic-project.html

APPENDIX:

IC 555 :

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IC 555 is a very commonly used IC for generating accurate timing pulses. It is an 8pin timer IC and has mainly
two modes of operation: monostable and astable. In monostable mode time delay of the pulses can be precisely
controlled by an external resistor and a capacitor.

IC 4017

This IC is very useful and also user friendly. To use the IC, just connect it according the specifications described
above in the pin configuration and give the pulses you need to count to the pin-14 of the IC. Then you can collect
the outputs at the output pins. When the count is zero, Pin-3 is HIGH

LED :

LEDs are Light Emitting Diodes. They are super compact and do not emit heat ; most commonly used in
emergency lightings, automotive tail lights.

DIODE (1N4148) :

The 1N4148 is a standard silicon switching signal diode. It is one of the most popular and long-lived switching
diodes because of its dependable specifications and low cost. Its name follows the JEDEc nomenclature. The
1N4148 is useful in switching applications up to about 100 MHz with a reverse-recovery time of no more than
4 ns.

CAPACITOR ( 1UF,2.2UF,10UF ) :

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Capacitor is a passive component used to store charge. The charge (q) stored in a capacitor is the product of
its capacitance (C) value and the voltage (V) applied to it. Capacitors offer infinite reactance to zero frequency
so they are used for blocking DC components or bypassing the AC signals.

POTENTIOMETER :

Potentiometer (Pot) is another class of variable resistors and is used as an adjustable voltage divider. It consists
of a fixed resistance track having connections at both ends and a sliding contact, called wiper, which moves
along this track by turning the spindle.

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 TRAFFIC LIGHT CONTROL

 TEAM MEMBERS NAME WITH REGISTER NUMBER

Ram Kiran JVV (RA1711004010147)
Prashant Reddy (RA1711004010041)
Vikas ( RA1711004010119)

 PHOTO OF TEAM MEMBERS WITH EXPERIMENTAL KIT IN

WORKING CONDITION