µC/GUI LCD Noritake Driver

Supported controllers

This driver has been tested with the following display:

  • Noritake GU256X128C_3900 configured for the ’Graphic DMA Mode’

Bits per pixel

The supported color depth is 1 bpp.

Interfaces

The driver supports the 8-bit parallel (simple bus) interface.

Display data RAM organization


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

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_YSIZE + 7) / 8 * LCD_XSIZE

Additional driver functions

None.

Hardware configuration

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

Macro Description
LCD_DAD Display address used for the communication protocol. Default value is display address 0.
LCD_INIT_CONTROLLER Initialization sequence for the display.
LCD_WRITE_A1 Writes a byte to the display.
LCD_WRITEM_A1 Writes multiple bytes to the display.