Have you looked at a max6920 or 6921?

On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 00:57, peter bunge <[email protected]> wrote:

> I need to drive a single IV12 vacuum fluorescent display from a BCD to 7
> segment chip.
> I could use level shifters like the CD40109B or CD4504B but they don't
> have 7 devices in one chip (4 and 6) and only drive 18 volts which might
> work.
> I could use a ULN2803 transistor array with 7 pullup resistors on the
> outputs. The problem is the BCD to 7 decoders (e.g. CD4511) are usually
> active high, which I need, but the ULN2803 is an inverter which I don't
> need. A CD4543B might work as the BCD to 7 and can be selected for inverted
> outputs but it is designed for LCDs not driving transistors.
> The  74LS47 has the right polarity to drive the transistor array but it
> has open collector outputs so 7 more resistors are required.
> Any suggestions that don't get even more complicated (shift registers,
> octal inverters, arduinos, etc)
> I'm looking for a convenient driver chip.
>
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