> Anyone have a favorite microprocessor for driving the 24 74141 inputs on this > sucker? I'm considering taking advantage of this project to do my first > tutorial on shift registers using the 74HC595 with an Arduino, but am not > opposed to directly controlling them all individually with a IC that has > enough pins.
Pretty much any microprocessor can do the job (okay, an 1802 wouldn't be able to do a lot in realtime). There are several that have enough I/O pins to do the job (with level shifters). Normally I'd just use a smaller one and some shift register chips. You can use level shifters on the shift register outputs, or use shift register chips with high voltage outputs. > On a completely different topic, does anyone have any interesting books they > would recommend on any topic related to nixies, decatrons, or old school > logic chips? I have been on an interlibrary loan kick to find some of the > ones I can't find used or cheap. I just got Cold Cathode Glow Discharge > Tubes that way, and am looking for other suggestions that might be worth > tracking down. For old school logic, I'm very fond of Don Lancaster's "TTL Cookbook" and "CMOS Cookbook". They were both printed in large quantities, and not hard to find today. In fact, one member here has been known to give away copies of these when he had surplus. For display technology, there are a lot of good ones out there (many available online too). I happened to pick up a copy of this one in a used book store a while back. It covers a bunch of different technology, but not in a whole lot of depth: "Electronic Displays", Bylander, Texas Instruments, 1979 (ISBN: 0-07-009510-8) I'm also just going to quote Tim Laing's description of his nixie library verbatim, as it gives a lot of good starting points for library searches: > These are the books in my Nixie Library. Some are pretty technical. More > technical than I am! > > Cold Cathode DIscharge Tubes J.R. Acton, J.D. Swift 1963. Academic Press > Inc Publishers New York ( No Library Of congress Numbers) Very deep waters > a lot of theory and math. > > Cold Cathode Glow Discharge Tubes Weston 1968 Iliffe Books Ltd London( No > Library Of congress Numbers) More practical material on construction and > materials. Still a lot of theory and math. But a technical layman can > learn a lot from this book. > > Electronic Counting Circuits J.B. Dance 1967 Library of Congress Catalog > Card system 67-13048 Iliffe Books Ltd London Practical Circuits Bible. > With descriptions of opertation of all the different types of counters and > indicators. Nixies, trigger tubes, dekatrons, E1T > > Cold Cathode Tubes J.B. Dance 1967 Iliffe Books London( No Library Of > congress Numbers) Descriptions of the different types of cold cathode > tubes and basic circuits. > > Applications of Neon Lamps and Gas Dischage Tubes, Edward Bauman Vice > president, Signalite Incorported. 1966 Carlton Press New York Library of > congress card number 66-28779 1001 uses for neon lamps/diodes showing > signalites products. > > Using and Understanding Miniature Neon Lamps by William G Miller 1969 > Howard W. Sams Lib Congress Cat 69-16778 General book for > nonmathematical electonic persons. Practical applications and circuits > using neon lamps. > > I would say Weston to get a good grasp on what you need to build nixies. > Acton If you want to get your Phd! > Tim Laing - John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
