Alternative of UDN2981

UDN2981 IC is not available in local market. please tell me about best alternative for this IC to drive 7x5 LED Dotmatrix.

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UDN2981 is an 8-channel driver which can source current required to drive the load. Now If you are looking for an alternative then you can either use a constant current driver and connect it to driver LED matrix or you can use MOSFETs to driver your LEDs.

Alternatively if you can make changes to your design then you can also use ULN2803 on cathode side and 5V on the source side. But this will have big impact on hardware + software.

UDN2981 IC is not available in local market. please tell me about best alternative for this IC to drive 7x5 LED Dotmatrix.

vipinpathakg

This type of "high side driver" is quite uncommon.
If the UDN2981 IC is not available in your local market
the alternatives probably aren't either.
You could replace each gate with drivers made using individual
transistors.
Take a look at this page for an outline of the principles and problems.
http://jeelabs.org/2012/11/12/high-side-switching/


I notice the project you ask about runs the LEDs from 5volts.
That would only need a single PNP transistor per 'gate'.