Philip Pemberton wrote:
> That's a pretty neat way to do it. Only problem is, the display won't run in
> SLEEP mode so I'm not going to be able to get the power consumption down far
> enough to run it for long periods off a lithium coin cell. Still a neat idea,
> though, and it might be worth a try...
Yes, consumption is a problem. Better to use an external LCD driver or a 
PIC16F913/4/6/7 directly.


> So for three backplanes, the BP signals would look something like this:
>        __
>       |  |                       1
> BP1 --+  +---------+  +--------  1/2
>                    |__|          0
>           __                     
>          |  |                    1
> BP2 -----+  +---------+  +-----  1/2
>                       |__|       0
>              __
>             |  |                 1
> BP3 --------+  +---------+  +--  1/2
>                          |__|    0
> 
> 
> In other words, 1/2 bias drive with 1/3 multiplexing.
Exactly.

regards,
Reggie

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