Bi-directional LED ?

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WOw, then each 7-segment display has different patterns for different number, the program is increased.
The diodes have to be able to withstand being reverse biased at the controllers driving levels though.
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Sorry but I don't understand this. But I use PNP for common anode, works fine.

Thanks
 
Charlieplexing advantage is reduced I/O pins. Disadvantages are non-standard display wiring and brightness limited due to I/O pin current limits.

Charlieplexing common anode displays requires an active high column driver signal and that's why I'm using NPN column drivers. Though you could use a PNP if you want to use two transistors for each column driver.

Yes, you use the same segment lookup tables (example below). The ISR driver (example in a previous post) takes care of that "floating" bit/pin wiring pattern.

Code: 
SegData
        andlw   b'00001111'     ;                                 |B0
        movwf   TEMP            ;                                 |B0
        movlw   high SegTable   ;                                 |B0
        movwf   PCLATH          ;                                 |B0
        movlw   low  SegTable   ;                                 |B0
        addwf   TEMP,W          ;                                 |B0
        skpnc                   ;                                 |B0
        incf    PCLATH,f        ;                                 |B0
        movwf   PCL             ;                                 |B0

SegTable
        dt      b'00111111'     ; "0"   -|F|E|D|C|B|A
        dt      b'00000110'     ; "1"   -|-|-|-|C|B|-
        dt      b'01011011'     ; "2"   G|-|E|D|-|B|A
        dt      b'01001111'     ; "3"   G|-|-|D|C|B|A
        dt      b'01100110'     ; "4"   G|F|-|-|C|B|-
        dt      b'01101101'     ; "5"   G|F|-|D|C|-|A
        dt      b'01111101'     ; "6"   G|F|E|D|C|-|A
        dt      b'00000111'     ; "7"   -|-|-|-|C|B|A
        dt      b'01111111'     ; "8"   G|F|E|D|C|B|A
        dt      b'01101111'     ; "9"   G|F|-|D|C|B|A
        dt      b'00000000'     ; " "   -|-|-|-|-|-|- 'nul' char
        dt      b'01000000'     ; "-"   G|-|-|-|-|-|- 'minus'
 
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Yes, in a traditional multiplexed common anode design like the one below, you would normally use active low PNP or P-channel MOSFET column driver transistors.

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Thank you for the suggestion. I have lighted switches spec'd and sourced and use them in different projects.

This project is designed to be very inexpensive and so I didn't want to include lighted switches. However, I thought it would be very cool if you could use a 10 cent LED as a switch or as a switch and indicator.
 
Then probably as a simple/cheap technique you can try to glue a smd LED on a pcb mounatable push switch, and have the switches behind a plastic membrane
 
mvadu said:
Then probably as a simple/cheap technique you can try to glue a smd LED on a pcb mounatable push switch, and have the switches behind a plastic membrane
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No... Too tricky and potentially mechanically unsound.
 
Just use a conductive epoxy, that's how mebrane switch makers mount surface mount LED's on their memebrane panels, I think they even make it clear, though finding a supplier of the stuff might not be easy. It also usually has a short shelf life and specific storage requirements.
 
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