On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Russell McMahon wrote:

> Pavel,
>
> There are numerous LED driving ICs around. An oldie but a goodie is the
> MM545X family which drives about 32 segments (40 pin dip) and has large
> current drive capability, segment current control, doesn't need segment
> resistors and has a very simple 2 wire serial interface [...]

here's a (little) more info:

The MM54X chips are from Micrel -- I found the MM5450 and MM5451.

My new best friend QuestLink.com has more information:
        http://www.questlink.com/Index/Listing/0,1121,0_0_183100,00.html


- j