AVR to LCD


Posted on Feb 7, 2014

If you can`t see any characters displayed on the LCD (and you`ve checked that the hardware and software are working) turn the LCD Contrast pot until you can see the characters. To load an 8 bit character or LCD command into the 74HC164 shift register, the code shifts the byte out bit by bit through PORTB bit 6, (LCDDat) clocking the 74HC164 clockby toggling PORTB


AVR to LCD
Click here to download the full size of the above Circuit.

bit 7 (LCDClk) for each bit. The data is latched on the rising edge of the clock, so the data bit on the port should be set first. Once the byte has been loaded into the shift register (and is now appearing on the LCD Data bus pins) the code selects the LCD register (either data or command) by setting the LCDDat pin low or high. Since the LCDClk pin is not being toggled, the 74HC164 ignores this data. Once RS is set, the code toggles the LCD E clock (LCDE, PORTB pin 5) and the LCD reads the data on its data bus. The LCD will ignore all data on its data bus until its E clock is pulsed high, similar tothe Enable clock on many old 6800 and 6502 peripheral chips. The AT90S2313 doesn`t have a fully functional SPI bus, but some other AVR parts do. You can use the SPI port on these devices to communicate with this circuit - with the appropriate changes in code. The HD44780 is a particularly slow device, so even though command and character bytes have to go through a serialization routine first, it`s still a good thing to add a delay between bytes sent. The code assumes a 10MHZ AT90S2313 part; change the timing delays accordingly for different CPU clocks. I used Andyrate (which is no longer available) to calculate the timing values for the 8 bit timer used in the Delay routine. Kevin Rosenberg has AVRCalc, which can be used instead to generate the timer values.




Leave Comment

characters left:

New Circuits

.

 


Popular Circuits

Circuit converts pulse width to voltage
PC parallel port Null Printer Adapter
Modulator
Low Cost Water Pump Controller Circuit
Ticking Bomb circuit diagram
power supply Why is my simple boost converter giving me such a high peak output voltage
Ford Thunderbird: air conditioning instrument panel blow resistor
Stepper Motor circuits
DC-coupled multi-stage amplifier circuit b
Remote tracking circuit schematics



Top