Seven Segment Display Interfacing

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Seven Segment Display Interfacing

The 7 segment display is found in many displays such as microwaves or fancy toaster ovens and
occasionally in non cooking devices. It is just 7 LEDs that have been combined into one case to
make a convenient device for displaying numbers and some letters. The display is shown on the
left. The pin out of the display is on the right.

This version is a common anode version. That means that the positive leg of each LED is
connected to a common point which is pin 3 in this case. Each LED has a negative leg that is
connected to one of the pins of the device. To make it work you need to connect pin 3 to 5
volts. Then to make each segment light up, connect the ground pin for that led to ground. A
resistor is required to limit the current. Rather than using a resistor from each LED to ground,
you can just use one resistor from Vcc to pin 3 to limit the current.
The following table shows how to form the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters A, b, C, d, E, and F. '0'
means that pin is connected to ground. '1' means that pin is connected to Vcc.
To Display a (Pin 1) b (Pin 10) c (Pin 8) d (Pin 6) e (Pin 5) f (Pin 2) g (Pin 9)

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1

2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0

3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0

4 1 0 0 1 1 0 0

5 0 1 0 0 1 0 0

6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

7 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

9 0 0 0 1 1 0 0

A 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

b 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

C 0 1 1 0 0 0 1

d 1 0 0 0 0 1 0

E 0 1 1 0 0 0 0

F 0 1 1 1 0 0 0

Now, we want to run the display with the AT89C51 microcontroller. We will use Port 0 to run
the display. Connect the AT89C51 to the 7 segment display as follows.

Program to display "0" on the seven segment display

; PROG2 - Second Program, Display 0 on seven segment display


;
ORG 0000H ; Execution starts here

SETB P0.3 ; Turn off the g segment


CLR P0.1 ; Turn on the a segment
CLR P0.0 ; Turn on the b segment
CLR P0.6 ; Turn on the c segment
CLR P0.5 ; Turn on the d segment
CLR P0.4 ; Turn on the e segment
CLR P0.2 ; Turn on the f segment

HERE: AJMP HERE ; Loop here forever


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