Best is always subjective. There are PICs with buit-in glass driver --
usually they know both mux and static, so you should be fine. However, you
need loads of pins, probably you would need to look for bigger ones. 16F917
for example can handle 3.5 digit if I am not mistaken.

Tamas




On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:49 PM, alan smith <micro_eng2@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Given this part
>
>
> http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Lumex/LCD-S301C31TR/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMt7dcPGmvnkBhlG9ZxuTiHX7KD%2f%2fh9ZY24%3d
>
> or
>
> http://www.lumex.com/specs/LCD-S301C31TR.pdf
>
> In that I have never driven glass direct like this, it seems pretty
> straight forward, similar to driving LED display...but...the part requires
> 5VAC..
>
> Whats the best way to generate this?  How have others handled it?
>
>
>
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