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Liquid Crystal Display

An LCD is electronically modulated optical device shaped into a thin, flat panel made up of any

number of color or monochrome pixels filled with liquid crystals. powered electronic devices because it requires very small amounts of electric power
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LCDs have become a cheap and easy way to get text display for an embedded system.
Common displays are set up as 16 to 20 characters by 1 to 4 lines. The most commonly used ALPHANUMERIC displays are 1x16 (Single Line & 16 characters), 2x16 (Double Line & 16 character per line) & 4x20 (four lines & Twenty characters per line).

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An Example

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UNDERSTANDING LCD

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Dot Matrix
A 5X7 display consists of a

matrix of lights or mechanical indicators arranged in a rectangular configuration. By switching on or off selected lights, text or graphics can be displayed.
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Dot Matrix Example

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Pin Out

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Pin-Description
8 data pins D7:D0:

Bi-directional data/command pins. Alphanumeric characters are sent in ASCII format.

RS: Register Select RS = 0 -> Command Register is selected RS = 1 -> Data Register is selected R/W: Read or Write 0 -> Write 1 -> Read E: Enable (Latch data)

Used to latch the data present on the data pins. A high-to-low edge is needed to latch the data.
VEE : contrast control

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Important Note:
For Contrast setting a 10K pot should be used as shown

in the figure. Two types of data is given to the LCD data to be displayed, command or special instruction.

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Display Data Ram (DDRAM)

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 For a 2x16 LCD the DDRAM address for first line is

from 80h to 8FH & for second line is C0H to CFH. So if we want to display 'H' on the 7th position of the first line then we will write it at location 87h.

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LCD Commands Table

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INTERFACING LCD TO 8051

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Project Assignment 4

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Embedded C Program
#include<reg52.h> sfr ldata = 0x90; sbit rs = P2^0; sbit rw = P2^1; sbit en = P2^2; void lcdcmd(unsigned char value); void lcddata(unsigned char value); void msdelay(unsigned int itime); void main() { lcdcmd(0x38); msdelay(150); lcdcmd(0x0E); msdelay(150); lcdcmd(0x01); msdelay(150); lcdcmd(0x07); msdelay(150); lcdcmd(0x8B); msdelay(150);

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lcddata('C'); msdelay(150); lcddata('H'); msdelay(150); lcddata('I'); msdelay(150); lcddata('P'); msdelay(150); lcddata('A'); msdelay(150);

lcddata('D'); msdelay(150); lcddata('R'); msdelay(150); lcddata('O'); msdelay(150); lcddata('I'); msdelay(150); lcddata('T'); msdelay(150); lcddata('S'); }
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void lcdcmd(unsigned char value) { ldata=value; rs=0; rw=0; en=1; msdelay(1); en=0; return; } void lcddata(unsigned char value) { ldata=value;

rs=1; rw=0; en=1; msdelay(1); en=0; return; } void msdelay(unsigned int itime) { unsigned int i,j; for(i=0;i<itime;i++) for(j=0;j<1275;j++); }

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