74HC/HCT4017 are high-speed Si-gate CMOS devices and are pin compatible with the “4017” of the “4000B” series. They are specified in compliance with JEDEC standard no. 7A. The 74HC/HCT4017 are 5-stage Johnson decade counters with 10 decoded active HIGH outputs (Q0 to Q9), an active LOW output from the most significant flip-flop (Q5-9), active HIGH and active LOW clock inputs (CP0 and CP1) and an overriding asynchronous master reset input (MR). When cascading counters, the Q5-9 output, which is LOW while the counter is in states 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, can be used to drive the CP0 input of the next counter. A HIGH on MR resets the counter to zero (Q0 = Q5-9 = HIGH; Q1 to Q9 = LOW) independent of the clock inputs (CP0 and CP1). Automat