Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
16 years ago

Electronics Newbie question concerning LEDs

Hi all, I am an electronics newbie, and I am trying to design an guitar that has a light up fretboard. To do this I need to control about 120 individual, single color LEDs, and I am having trouble...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
16 years ago

Just use 8 or 16 channel serial input LED drivers (or just serial latches). You can do it all with 4 pins and one string of drivers.