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Video Design Idea: Microcontroller drives 20 LEDs

Dhananjay V Gadre of the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, details and demonstrates the use of "Charlieplexing" to drive 20 LEDs using six available I/O pins on an 8-pin microcontroller.

By Staff -- EDN, 9/27/2007

This EDN Video Design Idea, presented by Dhananjay V Gadre, assistant professor in the electronics and communications engineering division of the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, details and demonstrates the use of "Charlieplexing" to drive 20 LEDs using six available I/O pins on an 8-pin microcontroller.

The circuit is based on an Atmel AVR-family ATTiny13 microcontroller, which features 1 kbyte of program memory; a four-channel, 10-bit ADC; and six general-purpose I/O pins. Altering the circuit's firmware allows linear or logarithmic scaling of the 0 to 5V input-voltage range.

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