These Absen-OF20v 16x8 pixel RGB modules were given to me to develop with from my client as a test to see if it can be done with a micro-controller to replace some bad software interfaces originally designed my Chinese manafacturers. Since the Receiving card and "Full Color" controller card interfaced to the modules and PC, it was asked of me to find another way to eventually have better software (written by his software developers), talk to my micro-controller and associated hardware.
If you go to this link you will see the modules arranged in 6x4 configurations in cabinets at about $2900 each. Many cabinents are then cascaded to make up the large display signs you see outdoors. This is not my client but just another US distributor I found on the web: **broken link removed**
The "Full Color" LED Display controller PCI card is also shown but not the "Receiving Card". This is only referenced in the Installation manual. This could be the key element here.
I bought microElectronica BASIC with an EasyPIC 4 (now up to the EasyPIC 5) about a year ago and I returned it because I was confused with it intially and saw the BASIC was not as large in commands as SXB was for the Parallax SX chips that I was currently using. I can probably go back to this if you think this is the "right" way to go on this with available PWM, RAM, etc.
https://www.mikroe.com/en/tools/easypic5/
Parallax SXB for their SX chips is far more advanced than their BASIC STAMP 2's. You can insert in-line assembly (which I don't know too well) as well as a large command of BASIC like SXB statements.
Can the PIC meet this challenge or stick with my current comfort zone of experience with the SX chips?
**broken link removed**
If you go to this link you will see the modules arranged in 6x4 configurations in cabinets at about $2900 each. Many cabinents are then cascaded to make up the large display signs you see outdoors. This is not my client but just another US distributor I found on the web: **broken link removed**
The "Full Color" LED Display controller PCI card is also shown but not the "Receiving Card". This is only referenced in the Installation manual. This could be the key element here.
I bought microElectronica BASIC with an EasyPIC 4 (now up to the EasyPIC 5) about a year ago and I returned it because I was confused with it intially and saw the BASIC was not as large in commands as SXB was for the Parallax SX chips that I was currently using. I can probably go back to this if you think this is the "right" way to go on this with available PWM, RAM, etc.
https://www.mikroe.com/en/tools/easypic5/
Parallax SXB for their SX chips is far more advanced than their BASIC STAMP 2's. You can insert in-line assembly (which I don't know too well) as well as a large command of BASIC like SXB statements.
Can the PIC meet this challenge or stick with my current comfort zone of experience with the SX chips?
**broken link removed**