

or limited to 60mA /10 = 6mA average or 6mA/20mA=30% of rated intensity.Ī typical 10mm 7seg LED is rated for 20mA continuous and 60mA MAX Therefore increase the duty cycle from 5 to 10 makes the average current much lower than rated and thus much dimmer. Whenever you MUX LEDs you are limited on the duty cycle because the Absolute Max mA/ Rated mA is often only 3. What's all this stuff about Ohm's Law, duty cycle and loss of efficacy for small duty cycles with high Ipk/Iavg? The outputs of TPIC6b595 are open drain outputs and hence you will need 8 pull up resistors at the outputs of it.
#Logicworks 7 segment display code
I will add the 7 Segment Driving code to it. You make a template code which contains a Timer X Initialization function which initializes the Timer X to 2 ms interrupt and an ISR routine which tests if Timer Flag was set and reloads the timer register for your Reneasas microcontroller.
#Logicworks 7 segment display how to
If you are interested then I will write a code for you using pointers but not for your micrcocontroller but for PIC to show you how to make it using pointers. I can write a better code for scrolling display using pointers. Here I am attaching code for blinking selected digit and also for scrolling display. RCK is equal to ST_CP (storage clock pulse) SRCK pin is equal to SH_CP (shift clock pulse) The (SRCLR Bar) pin of TPIC is equal to MR Bar pin of 74HC595. The (G Bar) pin of TPIC is equal to OE Bar pin of 74HC579. It is same as 74HC595 except it can drive larger load. I checked the datasheet of the TPIC device (tpic6b595). Which microcontroller do you want to use to drive the 5 chips ?ĭo you want to display integer value or floating point value ?ĭo you want to display leading zeroes like in 00452 or do you want to block them and display as 452 ? I tested your setup in Proteus and it works. Yes, as you have connected emitter to common anode pins your circuit will work. Only one output of CD4017 will be high at a time and after 5th pin oes high and turns ON digit 5 and then turns OFF then you can reset Cd4017 and start another cycle of data writing. This will give blinking effect when you are setting a value. To blink a digit like say you want to blink 5 then you have to use a counter which will hold the time for which display will be ON and then toggle a flag and count same time again with displays OFF. For buttons you can use ordinary non interrupt buttons. You need only one Timer Interrupt to do this. When you want to display 25 then you have to send mask of 5 and then turn on digit one (units digit) then it will be ON for 2 ms and then you turn OFF digit one and then you send mask for 2 and then turn on tens digit and keep it ON for 2 ms and then repeat the cycle.
