Thanks for the advice. I checked the Mod 6 and looking closely, there is no flicker whatsoever. Hopefully I can get to 4ms updates or close, by writing directly to the port, bypassing digitalWrite(), and optimizing the code. Assembly language is not an option. Last time I did that was in college, on a General Automation minicomputer.
The CD4504 has two unused level shifters so I will connect each of the three HV5530's data lines directly to the processor, clocking three bits at the same time, without adding hardware. Data for each digit is stored separately, so the software changes are easy, at least for that part. Hopefully fading will get done, after all. > There is a possible advantage to just using separate data lines, while > keeping the CLK/LE/BLANK lines paralleled. You could clock out the data in > 1/3 the time. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/e37a4a79-d84d-462d-9f58-2d9c3e601df2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
