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Charlieplexing

Charlieplexing noun: a technique for driving a multiplexed display in which relatively few I/O pins on a microcontroller are used to drive an array of LEDs. It is based on tristate logic.

Noun

Charlieplexing (uncountable)

  1. A technique for driving a multiplexed display in which relatively few I/O pins on a microcontroller are used to drive an array of LEDs. It is based on tristate logic.

Origin of Charlieplexing

Blend of Charlie + multiplexing. It was proposed in early 1995 by Charlie Allen at Maxim Integrated.

Questions about Charlieplexing

What does Charlieplexing mean?
Charlieplexing means a technique for driving a multiplexed display in which relatively few I/O pins on a microcontroller are used to drive an array of LEDs. It is based on tristate logic.
What part of speech is Charlieplexing?
Charlieplexing is a noun.

Words near Charlieplexing in the dictionary

  1. CharlieCard
  2. CharlieCards
  3. Charlieplex
  4. Charlieplexed
  5. Charlieplexes
  6. Charlieplexing
  7. charlies
  8. Charline
  9. charlock
  10. charlocks
  11. Charlotta

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