led dot matrix

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can someone help me find a led dot matrix display driver? I thought
of using the max7219, but i thought it might be a little hard to do
ASCII decoding. has anyone tryed to use the max, or would it be
better to keep looking?

thanks
TC

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[font=arial,helvetica]TC,
At the Embedded show in SF this week Parallax has a LED demo that uses a i2c
Micrel MIC74 chip to drive eight 8 x 8 led blocks via BS2p24. The pbasic
software will be on the Parallax web site after the show.
Chuck[/font]

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Where's a good place to source some of those MIC74 IC chips? Any body
have a lead on that? How about code to drive them? Sure looks neat!!

Leroy


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