I am a tinkerer trying to find a higher power alternative to the sn74hc595 and my search brought me across the tpic6b595. From googling around a bit I found that the tpic6b595 should work with the existing arduino library. That's fine and I am willing to accept that, but how would I be able to come to that conclusion by looking at the data sheets? I am sure it has something to do with timing, but I keep staring at the datasheets and can't really find any patterns or anything to work with. Can someone help me out or point me in the right direction?
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tpic6b595.pdf http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74hc595.pdf