The CD4017BE is a 16-pin RoHS-compliant integrated circuit (IC) manufactured by HGSEMI and is used as a dual 5-stage divider and decade counter. It features three decade counters connected in cascade and one 5-stage decade counter, two 5-stage dividers, and a 5-stage binary counter. This IC includes an internal oscillator circuit and is capable of operating with a supply voltage from 5V to 15V. It has a variety of logic outputs, enabling it to be used for various cascading operations in logic circuits. Its main applications include frequency division, pulse counting, and clock pulse generating.