On 11/10/09, Bob Blick <bobblick@ftml.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:05:06 -0800, "Vasile Surducan"
> <piclist9@gmail.com> said:
> > BTW,
> > assuming you want to build it from scratch, how many IO pins will be
> > necessary for a
> > 7 seg clock displaying:
> > dd:mm:yyyy     hh:mm:ss:tt   totaly16 digit
> > where the format displayed is day:month:year
> > hour:minute:second:milisecond
>
> Only one pin if you use extra parts :) But if you want to directly drive
> the display, and also choose a "standard" display you will have 8
> segments plus as many digit commons as you have digits. So if you really
> need milliseconds, that sounds like 9 digits and that would total 17
> pins.

Hi Bob,

It can be better...

Vasile
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