GPO Breakout Board

This board breaks out the 74HC595 bit shifter IC. It can be daisy chained and each chip will provide 8 output pins over SPI.

I designed this board to show multiplexing and daisy chaining capabilities for the 74HC595 chip. The design could look a bit odd since the resistors and LEDs are positioned in a strange way.

This is done so the LEDs are optional. Instead of the resistors you could also solder regular pin headers at the top, to gain 8 output pins instead of LEDs.

By Stefan
Created on April 29, 2012, 16:28

Category: Digital

Difficulty: amateurs

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

Tags: 74hc595, daisy chain, multiplexing, netduino, spi

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