I've seem to have stumbled across a bit of a dilema. I am making a testing module that will sense if a short is in place out of 400 independant points. I am using an optocoupler to turn on a digital high to a d-latch if a fault is detected.
Once a fault occurs the data will be displayed into 3 7-segment displays.
My dilema is I need to take the raw data from the latches and send it out so that it will be able to be read on the 7-segment displays. I really don't want to sit down and write out a 400 bit kmap, to come up with the equations to create quite a large digital circuit. And I don't know of a microprocessor that may already be set up to do this for me.
I have a parallax chip (bs2px24) at my disposal, however I am pretty new when it comes to programming in bs2. if I have to buy a different chip it's not a problem.
Do any of you have any ideas on an easier way to do this or have you done something similar before?
Also I would love to know if there may be a way of looking up the function of a microcircuit and get a model number from it. anyone ever heard of anything like that?
Thanks in advance for any help
Once a fault occurs the data will be displayed into 3 7-segment displays.
My dilema is I need to take the raw data from the latches and send it out so that it will be able to be read on the 7-segment displays. I really don't want to sit down and write out a 400 bit kmap, to come up with the equations to create quite a large digital circuit. And I don't know of a microprocessor that may already be set up to do this for me.
I have a parallax chip (bs2px24) at my disposal, however I am pretty new when it comes to programming in bs2. if I have to buy a different chip it's not a problem.
Do any of you have any ideas on an easier way to do this or have you done something similar before?
Also I would love to know if there may be a way of looking up the function of a microcircuit and get a model number from it. anyone ever heard of anything like that?
Thanks in advance for any help