Hi!

This is my first post, so hello to everyone on the list...

I need to run a bargraph display from a PIC (exact type to be decided, but I 
have a range of 16F and a couple of 18F devices lying around).
The trouble is that due to space constraints, Im not really able to squeeze 
a 40 pin device in to the assembly and I dont have many GPIO lines left 
over...

So my intention was to use a serial to parallel shift register to give me 
the required outs from a couple of pins. Trouble is that it seems only 8 bit 
SRs are common now (and the level meters / bargraph displays are all 10 
part) so I was wondering how other people have done this.

I tried looking through the archives, but I couldnt find anything where the 
designer has adopted this approach.

EK 

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