On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:53:00 -0300, you wrote:

>Hi,
>	I've been looking at that PIC, the '913, and was wondering what is
>the idea with it. I mean it is supposed to handle 60 pixels, but when you
>set it up for that number of pixels, you don't have any useful pins
>available, just MCLR, OSCIN and OSCOUT (have in mind that not all have input
>AND output capabilities).... 
>
>	The TX/RX pins for either USART, I2C or SPI are used by the LCD, the
>analog pins are used by the LCD....
>
>	Am I missing something there? Is there a way to mux that? Should I
>make a softuart and use the oscilator pins to communicate the '913 to
>another PIC?

Remember that the LCD function can be enabled on a pin-by-pin basis, so you can allocate LCD pins as
required depending on which peripherals you need. 
Obviously of you need all the LCD pins you won't have a lot left, or will need to use the 914.
I'm sure there are a lot of apps that need a relatively small number of segments where the 91x would
be a good fit, especially considering its low price.

I actually used the 914 recently to drive a 4 digit direct-drive LCD, but didn't quite have enough
LCD pins so ended up doing it in software - the high pincount to cost ratio still made it a cheap
solution, and the nanowatt features help a lot when doing this. Fortunately I didn't need a lot of
IO pins...

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