Sunday, February 23, 2020

HP nixie driver chips 1820-0092

The most common nixie driver is the 74141 or its Russian equivalent K155ID1.
A lot less common is the HP 1820-0092.  There is a later version of that chip also called the 1820-0729.  These nixie drivers do the same thing, a BCD to 10 output driver.  The pinout is different than the Russian version.
It took a bit of research but I finally found the pinout and a truth table for this IC.  The information comes from an HP 5321B frequency counter manual.

https://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/05221-90014.pdf?id=1869796

This is the information that I needed.  I can now send the appropriate 1s and 0s via the 74HC595 chip to activate the correct digits.




https://www.nixies.us/resources/hp-1820-0092-nixie-driver/

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