Charlieplexing.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
Blend of Charlie + multiplexing. It was proposed in early 1995 by Charlie Allen at Maxim Integrated.
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