On 12 Mar 2012, at 23:23, Quixotic Nixotic wrote: > You could simply make a four bit counter and have it free-running the 1 of 16 > decoder to sweep the display. You could still use the inhibit pin to blank > the display when necessary. This would take the load off the microcontroller > and free it up to do other things which you then don't have to interleave > with the display routine.
This isn't going to work, as you still have to synchronise the bit pattern for the segments at the same time as you select the appropriate digit, so the complexity is still there - all I've done is increase the chip count. Bright ideas late at night... John S -- 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.
