Other Parts Discussed in Thread: LED171596A
I have a question from a related thread (see 
) that seems to remain unanswered:
Is the TLC59283, or any other TI led driver, capable of offloading time multiplexing logic from the connected MCU?
It seems (see in particular fig 13 of 
) that time multiplexing a set of LEDs, in all TI ICs that I can find, is coordinated by a connected MCU. However, it seems like this is really a tiny amount of additional logic to include in an LED driver itself (and, e.g., the MAX6958-MAX6959 does exactly this, though at insanely high cost - see the related thread cited above for an explanatory pic), but I don’t yet see that any TI led drivers can actually handle coordinating the time multiplexing themselves. I don't particularly want to bog down my MCU with constantly bit-banging the serial line to the led driver just to keep the image refreshing, but it seems that time multiplexing on all TI MCUs really requires this. Why? Do you have a worked solution using a small/low-cost dedicated MSP430 for coordinating the time multiplexing on 4-character 7-segment displays with up to 16 pins, like e.g. this one (https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Lite-On%20PDFs/LTC-2623G.pdf, which uses 5 common lines and 8 output lines)?
