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Noun

1. 1
   A technique for driving a multiplexed display in which relatively few I/O pins on a microcontroller are used to drive an array of LEDs. It is based on tristate logic. uncountable

Etymology

Blend of Charlie + multiplexing. It was proposed in early 1995 by Charlie Allen at Maxim Integrated.

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