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Arduino 4-Digit 7-Segment LED Display

FEBRUARY 29, 2016 BY ADMINISTRATOR — 12 COMMENTS

7 Segment LED displays are used in many applications as front panel number indicators.
The most common applications are calculators, microwave ovens, electronic lab
equipment like function generators and frequency counters.
A 7 segment LED display consists of 7 LEDs arranged in such a way that it can display
numbers from 0 to 9. The arrangement of LEDs in the display can be either common
anode or common cathode.

In this project, a 4 – digit 7 – segment LED display is used to display numbers using
Arduino.

Either a compact module containing four 7- segment LED displays can be used or four
individual 7 – segment displays can be used by multiplexing them.
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Table of Contents 
1. Circuit Diagram
2. Components Required
3. Working of 4 – Digit 7 – Segment LED Display
4. Code

Circuit Diagram

Components Required
Arduino UNO — 1 [Buy Here]
4 – Digit compact 7 – segment LED display — 1(Or)7 – Segment LED display — 4
BC547 — 4
1KΩ — 4
100Ω — 4
Working of 4 – Digit 7 – Segment LED Display
A 7 – Segment LED display, as the name indicates, is an assembly of LED bars, where
each bar can be powered individually. Each LED bar is in the form of a hexagon and the
overall arrangement will be in the form of ‘8’.

The following figure shows a general representation of 7 – segment LED display with
dedicated names to each segment.
Each segment can be powered separately to display digits from 0 to 9. The following
figure shows the pattern of digits displayed by a 7 – segment LED display.

As mentioned earlier, in a 7 – segment display, the LEDs can be arranged in common

anode or common cathode mode.

The equivalent circuit of a 7 – segment display in common anode and common cathode
configuration is shown below.
To determine whether the 7 – segment display is common anode or cathode, a small
test circuit can be built. The common terminal of the display is connected to a current
limiting resistor.

The resistor is given positive voltage and any of the segments (A to G) is connected to
ground. If the segment glows, then it is common anode display.

If the segment doesn’t glow, reverse the polarity of the supply and then it glows. This is a
common cathode display.

It is important to determine whether the display is of common anode or common

cathode type as the code for Arduino (or any microcontroller) will depend on it.

In this project, we are using a 4 – digit 7 – segment LED display. We can use a compact
4 – digit module or use four individual 7 – segment displays and multiplex them to make
a 4 – digit display.

The following figure shows four multiplexed 7 – segment LED displays.

Respective segment pins (A to G and DP) of all the 7 – segment displays are connected
with each other.

Hence, only 8 pins will be sufficient to control all the eight segments of all four displays.
These eight pins are connected to eight pins of Arduino.

We assume that the selected 7 – segment module is of common cathode type. The four
common pins from four displays are connected to collector terminals of four different
transistors through current limiting resistors.

The emitter terminals of four transistors are connected to ground. The four base terminal
of the four transistors are connected to four pins of Arduino through current limiting
resistors.

All the connections are shown in the circuit diagram.

The aim of this project is to demonstrate the working of a 4 – digit 7 – segment LED
display using Arduino by implementing a simple counter.

The circuit diagram and written code are developed for common cathode type 7 –
segment LED display.

Code

1 #define duration 5000

2
3 #define A 2

4 #define B 3

5 #define C 4

6 #define D 5

7 #define E 6

8 #define F 7

9 #define G 8
10 #define DP 9

11
12 #define disp1 10

13 #define disp2 11

14 #define disp3 12

15 #define disp4 13

16
17 #define numbersegments { \

18 {1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0},\

19 {0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0},\
20 {1,1,0,1,1,0,1,0},\
21 {1,1,1,1,0,0,1,0},\

22 {0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0},\

23 {1,0,1,1,0,1,1,0},\

24 {1,0,1,1,1,1,1,0},\

25 {1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0},\

26 {1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},\

27 {1,1,1,0,0,1,1,0},\

28 }

29
30 byte numbers[10][8] = numbersegments;
31 const int segments[8] = {A, B, C, D, E, F, G, DP};

32
33 void setup()

34 {

35 pinMode(A, OUTPUT);

36 pinMode(B, OUTPUT);

37 pinMode(C, OUTPUT);

38 pinMode(D, OUTPUT);
39 pinMode(E, OUTPUT);
40 pinMode(F, OUTPUT);
41 pinMode(G, OUTPUT);
42 pinMode(DP, OUTPUT);

43 pinMode(disp1, OUTPUT);

44 pinMode(disp2, OUTPUT);

45 pinMode(disp3, OUTPUT);

46 pinMode(disp4, OUTPUT);

47 digitalWrite(A, LOW);

48 digitalWrite(B, LOW);

49 digitalWrite(C, LOW);

50 digitalWrite(D, LOW);
51 digitalWrite(E, LOW);
52 digitalWrite(F, LOW);

53 digitalWrite(G, LOW);

54 digitalWrite(DP, LOW);

55 digitalWrite(disp1, LOW);

56 digitalWrite(disp2, LOW);

57 digitalWrite(disp3, LOW);

58 digitalWrite(disp4, LOW);

59 }

60
61 void loop()
62 {

63 for (int digit4=0; digit4<10; digit4++)

64 {

65 for (int digit3=0; digit3<10; digit3++)

66 {

67 for (int digit2=0; digit2<10; digit2++)

68 {

69 for (int digit1=0; digit1<10; digit1++)

70 {

71 for (int t=0; t<30; t++)

72 {

73 setsegments(digit1, disp1, duration);

74 setsegments(digit2, disp2, duration);

75 setsegments(digit3, disp3, duration);

76 setsegments(digit4, disp4, duration);

77 }

78 }

79 }

80 }

81 }
82 }

83
84 void setsegments(int number, int digit, int ontime)

85 {

86 for (int seg=0; seg<8; seg++)

{
 87
88 if(numbers[number][seg]==1)

89 {

90 digitalWrite(segments[seg], HIGH);
91 }

92 else

93 {

94 digitalWrite(segments[seg], LOW);

95 }

96 }

97 digitalWrite(digit, HIGH);

98 delayMicroseconds(ontime);

99 digitalWrite(digit, LOW);

100 }

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Comments

Manoj Acharjee says

MARCH 18, 2016 AT 1:57 AM

Thanks for sending the best project to learn 7 segment led.

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Akhil bansal says

APRIL 13, 2016 AT 10:49 AM

I need to learn the programming of Arduino and other microcontrollers, suggest me

some books , source for it.

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 Shivraj muttagi says
AUGUST 27, 2016 AT 2:22 PM

This website has superb for me…..

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Sangeetha says
APRIL 11, 2017 AT 7:16 AM

Sir this code work in pic development board?

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S Gnana Asha says

DECEMBER 26, 2017 AT 5:26 AM

Video of this topic??

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knit tha says

FEBRUARY 16, 2018 AT 9:51 AM

For me thank you that you make project good for student lean

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Manikandan says
MARCH 21, 2018 AT 12:09 PM
I need an program code for arduino uno based 4digit 7 segment display using
decimal to binary output in 7segment display.

Please help us .

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junaid says
APRIL 9, 2018 AT 12:19 PM

can i get hex file of this

or kindly show me the way to load this code in arduino
i am using proteus 8

WHATEVER DO IT ASAP
THANKS IN ADVANCE

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Ravi says
APRIL 10, 2018 AT 4:07 AM

You need to use Arduino IDE to upload the code to Arduino. Simply connect the
Arduino to the computer (through USB cable) and hit upload in the Arduino IDE.
It’ll take care of everything.

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azfar rajput says

JULY 24, 2018 AT 9:35 AM
 kindly provide me the source , so that i can learn programming of arduino.

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Ravi says
JULY 30, 2018 AT 2:08 AM

Hi,
Code is already uploaded in the page.

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Amstrong says
DECEMBER 8, 2018 AT 9:27 PM

hey, this is really good. but can i get a help? im trying to build a counter but i have
issues.

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