loedown wrote:

Had a look at those Rabbit micros, they are like an upscale version of the
PICs. There is no reason why they wouldn't work as well.

As for your other question, from memory the 74138 does that.

Programming a device to take binary input and switching one of eight outputs
would be quite easy though, that's reason for these programmable ICs, no or
limited additional support circuitry is required

Paul



Well what I want to do is switch on of a few hundred outputs. The idea
is to have an 8 bit binary number determine which one is switched, have
modules with 8 or so switches each on them and have them stackable so I
can expand to up to 256 switches controlled by one PIC


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