futz f&ts v.i. To tinker experimentally; to change something just to see what it does

On my last post I had barely scratched the surface of what the LP55231 could do and was reading about the three program execution engines. After a bit of research I found that TI supplies a dashboard program and an assembler for the chip, but only for their own LP55231SQEVM evaluation board.

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I bought a Sparkfun BOB-13884 LP55231 breakout board as filler on a recent Digikey order. The LP55231 is quite an interesting chip. It drives only 9 LEDs, but has a pile of capabilities. And with the onboard charge pump it does it all on low power and very efficiently. Way too much to type, so her...

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