> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Quixotic Nixotic > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Vishay/Dale 16 digit alphanumeric gas plasma display > > 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...
X-) It could work with your discrete continuous multiplexing added to one of the circuits in the app note http://catalog.osram-os.com/catalogue/catalogue.do;jsessionid=?act=downloadFile&favOid=02000002000047e5000100b6 -- 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.
