At 08:22 AM 6/26/2004, Anthony Van Herrewege wrote:
> > Why don't you just use 5 PIC port pins?
>
>Hm, that could be an option, but I'd rather not use that much pins. I've
>only got 6 pins left on the PIC18F452 and I'd like to keep those. The
>fewer pins used the better.

Then just use an 8 pin PIC to drive the LEDs.  The LEDs are matrixed onto 4
or 5 pins.  Talk to it serially via the input-only pin (GPIO3).  Its a tiny
footprint and probably much cheaper than the alternatives.

dwayne

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