> I was looking at this one and it looks pretty good
> http://www.maximintegrated.com/datasheet/index.mvp/id/1339 but I was
> hoping someone here knows of something better. Ideally, it should be
> made by a company that's easy to deal with and whose products are
> common/generally available. So... not Maxim. In addition, it would be
> really nice if the digits weren't multiplexed/pulsed - I really hate
> the concept of pulse/duty cycle for driving LEDs. Ideally, each LED
> (segment) should be directly driven at 100% duty cycle, with varying
> current to control brightness.

I don't think anyone makes a chip that will drive 8 digits, but try Allegro=
 Micro and Texas Instruments, IIRC they have both done display drivers.

But if you really want to DC drive the segments I would go for a TI TPIC6A5=
95 shift register per digit with them all fed from one SPI port.

http://www.allegromicro.com/

http://www.ti.com/


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