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04/12/05 20:41
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#91470 - Confused
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Joshua Vavra said:
I have six large (4"x2") seven segment displays ... I have successfully muxed these using ... six 74LS373


You say you have successfully multiplexed them, but then say you don't know how to connect them.
So how do you know that your multiplexing is successful?

The 74LS373 is an octal latch - not sure why you'd use six of them to "multiplex" six 7-seg digits?

To multiplex six common-cathode 7-seg digits you would connect all six 'A' segments together to a current source driver;
similarly all six 'B' segments to another current source driver;
etc for all seven segments (or eight, if you include a decimal point).

So that's a total of 7 (or 8) source drivers for the segments.

Then you need a current sinking driver for each digit - a total of six current sinking digit-select drivers.
Segment
(Source)
Drivers
         +---------------------------+
         |                           |
  A -->--+                           |
         |                           |
  B -->--+                           |
         |                           |
  C -->--+                           |
         |                           |
  D -->--+                           |
         |                           |
  E -->--+                           |
         |                           |
  F -->--+                           |
         |                           |
  G -->--+                           |
         |                           |
         +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
             |   |   |   |   |   |
             |   |   |   |   |   |
             V   V   V   V   V   V
             |   |   |   |   |   |
             6   5   4   3   2   1       

          Digit-Select (Sink) Drivers


They require a substantial amount of current to work

That certainly means that you can't drive them directly from 8051 port pins - nor 74LS373 outputs!
Remember - the digit-select drivers must sink the current for all 7 segments when displaying an '8' (or all 8 segments for '8.')

As you're going to need external drivers anyhow, you might as well follow Ian's suggestion and get a chip that does the whole job for you:
http://www.8052.com/forum/read.phtml?id=91468

List of 23 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Seven Segment Displays Driven By 8051            01/01/70 00:00      
   Maxim part            01/01/70 00:00      
      Integrated MUX drivers are 5V only            01/01/70 00:00      
   Confused            01/01/70 00:00      
   Multiplexing 7-segment LED displays            01/01/70 00:00      
      rate of multiplex            01/01/70 00:00      
         Yes, of course,            01/01/70 00:00      
   Further Clarification of My Project            01/01/70 00:00      
      nobody can answer that            01/01/70 00:00      
      No 373s!            01/01/70 00:00      
         Ohhh! Pretty NM            01/01/70 00:00      
      OK            01/01/70 00:00      
   MAX7219            01/01/70 00:00      
      Like this            01/01/70 00:00      
      current?            01/01/70 00:00      
         LSD23255-10 Display Specs            01/01/70 00:00      
            data sheet?            01/01/70 00:00      
            GOOGLE!!!            01/01/70 00:00      
      Multiplexing            01/01/70 00:00      
   Drivers            01/01/70 00:00      
      74hc595 alt.            01/01/70 00:00      
         TPIC6C595 by TI?            01/01/70 00:00      
            Thanks.            01/01/70 00:00      

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