Seven Segment Board with ZDev

Posted by Vinoth | Thu, 22 May 2014 | Tagged: seven-segment, tutorial, zkit-arm-1343

In this second article, in the Seven Segment series, we are going to discuss about, how to use Seven Segment Display Board with the ZDev. If you haven’t, you might want to read the seven segment fundamentals described in the blog article Seven Segment Board, Getting Started before reading this article.

Hardware

Seven Segment Display Board
ZKit-ARM-1343 Board

The following diagram illustrate hardware connection. 8 digit seven segment and ZKit-ARM-1343 connected through DIO port.

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Figure 1. Seven Segment Display

Seven segment connectivity

Figure 2. Seven segment connectivity

GPIO2_0 to GPIO2_7 : Drive the value to be displayed on a 7-segment.
GPIO2_8 to GPIO2_10 : Used to select the digit position.
GPIO2_11 : Used to entire display ON or OFF.

We need to configure this pins direction as output, then only we can drive the pins. Following software code will say, how to configuration this pins.

Software

#include  <board.h>
#include  <stdint.h>
#include  <gpio.h>
#include  <lcd.h>

#define ENCODE_DIGIT_LENGTH (sizeof(encode_digit) / sizeof(uint8_t))

uint8_t encode_digit[] = {
         0x3F, /* 0 */
         0x06, /* 1 */
         0x5B, /* 2 */
         0x4F, /* 3 */
         0x66, /* 4 */
         0x6D, /* 5 */
         0x7D, /* 6 */
         0x07, /* 7 */
         0x7F, /* 8 */
         0x67, /* 9 */
         0x80  /* . */
};

/* Enable and set direction out of port 2 pins */
void sseg_init(void)
{
         uint8_t i;
         for (i = 0; i < 12 ; i++) {
                      gpio_enable_pin(GPIO2_0 + i);
                      gpio_direction_output((GPIO2_0 + i), 0);
         }
}

/* Display decimal value in segment display */
void sseg_display(uint8_t number)
{
        uint8_t temp = encode_digit[number];

        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_0, (temp >> 0) & 1);
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_1, (temp >> 1) & 1);
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_2, (temp >> 2) & 1);
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_3, (temp >> 3) & 1);
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_4, (temp >> 4) & 1);
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_5, (temp >> 5) & 1);
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_6, (temp >> 6) & 1);
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_7, (temp >> 7) & 1);
}

/* Select a digit of the Seven Segment Board */
void select_segment(uint8_t segment)
{
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_8, (segment >> 0) & 1);
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_9, (segment >> 1) & 1);
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_10, (segment >> 2) & 1);
}

/* Turn on the display */
void enable_sseg(void)
{
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_11, 0);
}

/* Turn off the display */
void disable_sseg(void)
{
        gpio_set_pin(GPIO2_11, 1);
}

int main()
{
        uint8_t number;
        uint8_t segment;
        uint32_t i;

        board_init();
        gpio_init();
        sseg_init();  /*  */
        enable_sseg();  /*  */

        number = 0;
        while (1) {
                sseg_display(number);  /*  */
                for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
                        for (segment = 0; segment < 8; segment++) {
                                select_segment(segment); /*  */
                        }
                }

                number++;
                number %= ENCODE_DIGIT_LENGTH;
        }
}