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Basic Stamp 2 with TLC5940NT

Roxas240Roxas240 Posts: 2
edited 2012-07-16 14:20 in BASIC Stamp
Ive been messing with the basic stamp 2 since last christmas. Compleating Whats A Microcontroller ? Now I been Wonderind how i would hook up a 8x8 matrix display using a TLC5940NT so i can use buttons to control which charicter comes up. Basicly im asking how do i hook up a TLC5940NT to a Basic Stamp 2 Microcontroller. PS: i have the pinout not the data sheet.

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  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2012-07-09 08:02
    This is a complicated device. You'll need to thoroughly understand what's described in the datasheet. We can answer limited specific questions.

    The main connection between the TLC5940NT and a Stamp would be the SIN / SOUT / SCLK clocked serial connection. These would be connected to I/O pins and you'd use the SHIFTIN and SHIFTOUT statements to send and receive data to and from the TLC5940NT. There are some other mode setting pins like DCPRG, VPRG, and XLAT that you'd also connect to I/O pins and use HIGH and LOW to control them. VPRG would require some external circuitry to allow you to provide Vprg for programming the EEPROM
  • Roxas240Roxas240 Posts: 2
    edited 2012-07-12 12:18
    Thankyou very much this was help i will go look at the data sheet and finaly figure this out
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2012-07-16 14:20
    I have set this thread Status to Solved.
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