STP16C596 Shift Register

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I am planning to follow this tutorial http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ShiftOut and have been looking for the STP16C596 mentioned in it but cant seem to find it any where. Does anyone know where I can find this part? Thank you

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it may not be the shift register you want, but i bought a couple of mm74hc164n shift registers at a fry's electronics store. they don't have a latch line, but they do a pretty good job at adding more i/o lines. they worked pretty well for a 8x8 led matrix.

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Thanks weirdo557, however I'm looking for something that can control 16 pins. I contacted DigiKey and they have said that this part is obsolete. Is there a similar part out there that performs the same function?

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For 16 pins you can just daisy chain two 74HC595 8 bit shift registers together. This uses the same amount of Arduino pins as a single 595. Scroll down to example 2 on this link.