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This document discusses interfacing a seven segment display to an ARM7 microcontroller. It describes connecting the display pins to ports on the microcontroller and storing the hexadecimal values for each number/character in a lookup table. The code will write these hex values to the port registers to display on the seven segment display.

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7 Seg

This document discusses interfacing a seven segment display to an ARM7 microcontroller. It describes connecting the display pins to ports on the microcontroller and storing the hexadecimal values for each number/character in a lookup table. The code will write these hex values to the port registers to display on the seven segment display.

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INTRODUCTION

Seven segment displays are very commonly used in meter displays, etc. In this tutorial

we’ll interface seven segment display(s) to our ARM7 based microcontroller

LPC2138

For those who are new to ARM refer to previous tutorial (LED Interfacing with ARM7)

DESCRIPTION

The task is to display all Numbers (0-9) and Alphabets on SSD.


LPC2138 is a 32-bit microcontroller, so while coding we’ll be dealing with IO Registers

that are 32-bit wide.

For Interfacing a 7-segment we choose P0 (P0.0 to P0.7; 8 Pins out of 32 IO Pins on

Port-0)

Let’s use a common anode type display, a simple push-button switch, Resistors,

etc.

a,b,c,d,e,f terminals of display are connected to P0.0 to P0.6 respectively. Common

terminal is supplied with +Vcc through a current limiting resistor R.

Look-Up table

Disp. g f e d c b a HEX

VALUE

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 40

1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 79

2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 24

3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 30

4 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 19

5 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 12
6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 02

7 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 78

8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

9 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 10

a 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 08

b 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 03

c 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 46

d 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 21

First step is to generate a HEX code for each Number/Character that we want to display

on SSD. This is done as in Look-up table above.

In this interfacing we are concerned only with last 7-bits of P0 (Data line for SSD; P0.0-

P0.6). So we will calculate the hex value only for those bits and leave others as ‘don’t

care’.

These HEX-values will be put on the port through the Port0 Register (IOPIN0)

For eg:

‘6’ will be sent to port as à IOPIN0=0x00000002

‘A’ will be sent to port as à IOPIN0=0x00000008

‘d’ will be sent to port as à IOPIN0=0x00000021

Notice the changing last 8-bits (LSB)

Details of Code:

· IODIR0 is Data direction register, which governs the direction of flow of data or

more simply it decides whether the Port/Pin is Input or Output.

· IOPIN0 register is used to send data to be displayed on the pins of Port 0.

· delay() function is used to introduce a specific delay between the displayed

digits/characters.
Images:

Fig. 1: Circuit Diagram of LPC2138 ARM Microcontroller and SSD Interfacing

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