µC/GUI LCD7529 Driver

Supported controllers

This driver has been tested with the following LCD controllers:

  • Sitronix ST7529 controller

Bits per pixel

The supported color depth is 5 bpp.

Interfaces

The driver supports 8-bit parallel (simple bus) interface, 3 line SPI or 4 line SPI.

Display data RAM organization

The picture above shows the relation between the display memory and the SEG and COM lines of the display.

Additional RAM requirements of the driver

This driver requires a display data cache, containing a complete copy of the contents of the display data RAM. The amount of memory used by the cache may be calculated as follows:
Size of RAM (in bytes) = (LCD_XSIZE + 2) / 3 * 3 * LCD_YSIZE

Additional driver functions

None.

Hardware configuration

This driver accesses the hardware with a simple bus interface. The following table lists the macros which must be defined for hardware access:

Macro Description
LCD_INIT_CONTROLLER Initialization sequence for the LCD controller.
LCD_WRITEM_A1 Writes multiple words to display controller with A-line high.
LCD_WRITE_A0 Writes a word to display controller with A-line low.
LCD_WRITE_A1 Writes a word to display controller with A-line high.

Additional configuration switches

None.

Special requirements for certain LCD controllers

None.