不说废话了，直接进入正题——转载。

Step 9IO port expansion, alternative solution

There is another solution for providing more output lines. We went with the latch based multiplexer because we had 8 latches available when building the LED cube.

You can also use a serial-in-parallel out shift register to get 64 output lines. 74HC164 is an 8 bit shift register. This chip has two inputs (may also have an output enable pin, but we will ignore this in this example).

• data
• clock

Every time the clock input changes from low to high, the data in Q6 is moved into Q7, Q5 into Q6, Q4 into Q5 and so on. Everything is shifted one position to the right (assuming that Q0 is to the left). The state of the data input line is shifted into Q0.

The way you would normally load data into a chip like this, is to take a byte and bit-shift it into the chip one bit at a time. This uses a lot of CPU cycles. However, we have to use 8 of these chips to get our desired 64 output lines. We simply connect the data input of each shift register to each of the 8 bits on a port on the micro controller. All the clock inputs are connected together and connected to a pin on another IO port.

This setup will use 9 IO lines on the micro controller.

In the previous solution, each byte in our buffer array was placed in it's own latch IC. In this setup each byte will be distributed over all 8 shift registers, with one bit in each.

The following pseudo-code will transfer the contents of a 64 bit buffer array to the shift registers.

// PORT A: bit 0 connected to shift register 0's data input, bit 1 to shift register 1 and so on.
// PORT B: bit 0 connected to all the clock inputs
// char buffer[8] holds 64 bits of data

for (i=0; i < 8; i++)
{

PORTB = 0x00; // Pull the clock line low, so we can pull it high later to trigger the shift register
PORTA = buffer[i]; // Load a byte of data onto port A
PORTB = 0x01; // Pull the clock line high to shift data into the shift registers.

}

This is perhaps a better solution, but we had to use what we had available when building the cube. For the purposes of this instructable, we will be using a latch based multiplexer for IO port expansion. Feel free to use this solution instead if you understand how they both work.

With this setup, the contents of the buffer will be "rotated" 90 degrees compared to the latch based multiplexer. Wire up your cube accordingly, or simply just turn it 90 degrees to compensate ;) 

Step 10Power supply considerations

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