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>> > RTFM is the universal answer for all of this. There may be some tutorials, but they likely won"t cover the particular LCD you are using - that said, try Googling. The "M""s in "RTFM" are the datasheets for the LCD and the FPGA.

>> > - First start electrically - what does the data sheet for the LCD say is the electrical format of the signals it accepts? (3.3V TTL? LVDS? 1.8V logic? etc.). Then see the FPGA data sheet to see if you can find an IO standard that matches. Hook the two up accordingly.

>> > - Next, write some basic VHDL/verilog/UCF files for the FPGA to instantiate the signals to the LCD in your FPGA and set everything to the appropriate IO standard.

>> > - Then dig into the LCD datasheet again and figure out what commands or data formating it needs and get cracking on a VHDL/verilog state machine or data formatter that accomplishes whatever it is that you want to do with the LCD. Depending on the application it was meant for, most LCDs are either command and buffer based (that is, you write some commands to it, then write to a frame buffer on the LCD controller), or they are video stream based (i.e. no commands necessary, just send raw RGB data continuously).

Not long ago, we published some articles about controlling different kinds of displays, using your FPGA. On a VGA screen, on a small LCD screen, on a PSP LCD or even for the old, but nasty-analog-signaled NTSC system.

And today, we share with you another great tutorial on how to control a LCD TFT, that takes advantage of the ability of a FPGA to fully control what happens on every single clock cycle.

You may think, well, another LCD tutorial, more on the same…And you will be wrong. There are no identical systems. Each one has its own features which make it unique, and we want you to know them.

This is a very well explained tutorial that gives you all the files you will need to successfully implement it: schematics, VHDL code files, Project files, datasheets of the display…Everything!

In addition the author takes some extra time to explain what really matters about this project and what makes it different from any other “How to control your LCD screen with your FPGA”. To properly control a TFT display you need two specific timed signals: DCLK (Pixel Clock) and DE (Data Enable). Why the code lines that control these two signal are coded the way they are is carefully explained in the article so you don´t want to miss it. Understanding this will make you capable of playing with any other TFT screen you may find.

Digital Blocks TFT LCD Controller reference design enables you to accelerate the design-in of TFT LCD panel displays in your system. The reference design centers on the Digital Blocks DB9000AVLN TFT LCD Controller intellectual property (IP) core, which is available in netlist or VHDL/Verilog HDL register transfer level (RTL) formats.

The DB9000AVLN core contains an Avalon® Memory-Mapped system interconnect for interfacing to the Nios® II embedded processor and SDRAM or SRAM controllers (either memory can serve as the frame buffer). Software supplied with this reference design runs on the Nios II embedded processor to place an image in the frame buffer memory and invokes the DB9000AVLN core to drive the LCD panel.

Using the Intel® Quartus® Design Software, you can instantiate the TFT LCD Controller reference design in a Cyclone®, Cyclone® II, or Cyclone® III FPGA development kit. See the Demonstrated Intel® Technology section for a complete list of supported Intel® FPGA development kits.

You can connect your LCD panel to the Intel FPGA development kit with the fabrication of an appropriate cable. Please contact Digital Blocks for more details.

If you Google our screen, the ST7753 1.8“ TFT SPI display, you will quickly find Lady Ada"s guide. However, short of a brief intro, it achieves little in uncovering how the display is controlled. It does link to the datasheet for the display"s chip, but this 164-page document is useful for little but reference.

The 1.8inch LCD uses the PH2.0 8PIN interface, which can be connected to the Raspberry Pi according to the above table: (Please connect according to the pin definition table. The color of the wiring in the picture is for reference only, and the actual color shall prevail.)

ST7735S is a 132*162 pixel LCD, and this product is a 128*160 pixel LCD, so some processing has been done on the display: the display starts from the second pixel in the horizontal direction, and the first pixel in the vertical direction. Start to display, so as to ensure that the position corresponding to the RAM in the LCD is consistent with the actual position when displayed.

The LCD supports 12-bit, 16-bit and 18-bit input color formats per pixel, namely RGB444, RGB565, RGB666 three color formats, this routine uses RGB565 color format, which is also a commonly used RGB format

2. The module_init() function is automatically called in the INIT () initializer on the LCD, but the module_exit() function needs to be called by itself

Python has an image library PIL official library link, it do not need to write code from the logical layer like C, can directly call to the image library for image processing. The following will take 1.54inch LCD as an example, we provide a brief description for the demo.

The demo is developed based on the HAL library. Download the demo, find the STM32 program file directory, and open the LCD_demo.uvprojx in the STM32\STM32F103RBT6\MDK-ARM directory to check the program.

image.cpp(.h): is the image data, which can convert any BMP image into a 16-bit true color image array through Img2Lcd (downloadable in the development data).

I haven"t used LVDS at all - cheaper and easier to purchase boards for that. And the highest (or is it lowest?) VEE I"ll use is -28V for the dual scan 640x480"s. Driving TFT"s is much easier, just faster. Things start to get hairy when you have to deal with colour tables for CSTN, using FRM where each byte written to the display is RGBRGBRG etc..

I like having a board with many (at least 8) SPST switches and LEDs, and momentary buttons. Unlike a microcontroller where it"s relatively easy to spit debug information out of a serial port or to an LCD with a single C function call, debugging FPGA designs is a bit harder. LEDs provide a zero fuss way to break out internal signals for visualisation - if you"re tracking the progress of a complex state machine, you can light up an LED when it gets to a certain point without adding any extra logic. While these are easy enough to add yourself, I find that it"s better to get a board that has them so that you don"t waste valuable user IOs or waste time investigating failures caused by your terrible soldering skills.

Reference designs can either be HDL or microcontroller-based, but in recent boards, most manufacturers seem to be moving to the latter. Bear this in mind if you don"t have a license for the microcontroller and environment (e.g. Xilinx EDK/SDK is not free), as the code will be difficult to port to HDL.

$159/$179Zynq 7010/ 70201GB DDR, 16MB flash, TF socket, gigabit Ethernet, CAN, USB2.0 OTG, USB-UART, HDMI output, 90 or 106 user I/Os (with 39 LVDS pairs), accelerometer and temperature sensor, JTAG, two buttons, 4 switches, four LEDs, and a buzzer. An "IO Cape" breakout board ($35) provides three Pmod connectors, camera and LCD connectors, and 0.1" header I/O pins.

$214Zynq 7010512MB, 128 Mb flash, micro SD, gigabit Ethernet, 802.11/b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.2/LE, USB for JTAG, UART, and OTG, HDMI Tx/Rx, VGA, stereo audio output, light and temperature sensors, 4*7 Seg LEDs, 5 LEDs, 4 slide switches, 31 PL I/Os and 4 PS I/Os. A 2x16 LCD module is included, and camera and TFT LCD modules are available.

$165Artix 35TA full-featured development board with 32MB SDRAM, SPI flash, USB-JTAG and USB-UART, 802.11 b/g/n via an ESP-12F module, BLE, 12-bit VGA, HDMI out, 4 ADC channels, temperature and light sensors, 12-bit DAC, 2x16 LCD, 4x7 segment display, Micro SD, 16 SPDT switches, 5 buttons, 16 LEDs, a buzzer, and 31 I/Os. Compatible SPI TFT display and CMOS camera modules are also available.

$69XC7S50An educational platform with an associated digital logic course. It features HDMI output, ADC, four servo controllers, 8-digit 7-segment display, 4 SPST buttons, 16 switches, 16 LEDs and 2 RGB LEDs, 4 PMODs, PWM audio output, USB programming/UART, and BLE ($10 extra)

$137XC7S15A development board with an array of onboard peripherals. It features 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 4/BLE, VGA output, 8-channel ADC, DAC, temperature and light sensors, USB-UART and USB-JTAG, 2x16 LCD, 4 7-segment displays, 16 slide switches, 5 SPST buttons, a buzzer, 16 LEDs, and 26 I/Os.

$16LX161MB flash, 32 MB SDRAM, 3 switches, 4 LEDs, JTAG connector, and 104 length-matched I/Os. There are reports that decoupling is insufficient, so beware. User manual and examples are provided. Also available is a daughterboard (approx $15) which provides 24-bit VGA, USB-UART, USB 2.0 peripheral controller, and CMOS/CCD camera connector.

₹ 8,500 ($132)LX9A development board with 8MB SPI flash, USB JTAG programmer, USB UART, WiFi, Bluetooth, VGA, 8-channel 12-bit ADC, 12-bit DAC, temperature sensor, LDR, 2x16 LCD, 4*7 segment display, buzzer, 16 SPST switches, 16 LEDs, 5 buttons, and external CMOS camera and TFT display modules.

$30.00100EA controller board with 8 LEDs, three SPST buttons, 35 I/Os, and USB programmer. It forms the foundation of a robotics and automation ecosystem, supporting up to nine simultaneous peripherals sold by the same manufacturer, complete with an FPGA code generation tool and Linux API.

120 EUR200AN/400ANA small stackable module that features a Cypress FX2LP USB controller, 128Mb SDRAM, 16 KB EEPROM, 72 GPIOs, 5 LEDs, 2 switches, and power via USB or external supply.

$30iCE40-HX8KA small module with 63 I/Os, 4 10-bit A/D inputs (via a PIC microcontroller), 8Mb SPI flash, 2 LEDs, and USB programmer. Also available in a kit ($34) which breaks the module out to 2.54mm headers.

$37iCE40-HX8KA module with 45 I/Os, 4 10-bit A/D inputs (via a PIC microcontroller), 32 red LEDs in a 4x8 matrix, 4 push SPST buttons, piezo sounder, and USB programming.

$38iCE40UP5kTwo LEDs (one RGB), SPST button, an STM32F04 microcontroller (user programmable, with USB interface), and 32 I/Os. Some companion boards are also available for LEDs, switch/joystick, and audio DAC. A Web-based IDE allows you to create Verilog designs and program devices without any software installation.

$99A2F200M3FIntegrated 100 MHz ARM Cortex-M3, 10/100 Ethernet PHY and on-chip MAC, USB-serial, on-board USB programming interface, OLED display, 8 LEDs, two user switches, and an indeterminate number of analog and digital outputs. It looks like a very interesting and inexpensive board for developing mixed FPGA/microcontroller applications.

$119, 81 academic3C168Mbyte SDRAM, 4 Mbyte flash, SD card socket, USB programmer, 3 buttons, 10 switches, 10 LEDs, 4 seven-segment displays, 16x2 LCD interface, VGA output, RS232 and PS/2 interfaces, and 72 I/Os.

$28-77Cyclone IIA range of cheap boards from Shenzhen, most with RAM and a variety of I/O including LCDs, 7-segment LEDs, VGA, switches, etc. Again they"re great value if you already have some experience with FPGAs, are comfortable reading schematics and don"t require any vendor support.

$5.90GOWIN GW1N-1-LVA very low cost board with 1152 LUT4s. It has a RGB LCD driver (supporting 800x480) and FPC connector, 8MB PSRAM, 34 I/O, RGB LED, and USB-C for power supply and programming.

$17.90Anlogic EG4S201 MB flash, 64 Mbit SRAM, RGB LED, TF card socket, FPC sockets for LCD or VGA adaptors and camera or ADC, resistive touch screen controller, USB-JTAG, and 72 I/Os.

TFT LCDs are the most popular color displays – the displays in smartphones, tablets, and laptops are actually the TFT LCDs only. There are TFT LCD shields available for Arduino in a variety of sizes like 1.44″, 1.8″, 2.0″, 2.4″, and 2.8″. Arduino is quite a humble machine whenever it comes to process or control graphics. After all, it is a microcontroller platform, and graphical applications usually require much greater processing resources. Still, Arduino is capable enough to control small display units. TFT LCDs are colorful display screens that can host beautiful user interfaces.

Most of the smaller TFT LCD shields can be controlled using the Adafruit TFT LCD library. There is also a larger TFT LCD shield of 3.5 inches, with an ILI9486 8-bit driver.

The Adafruit library does not support the ILI9486 driver. Actually, the Adafruit library is written to control only TFT displays smaller than 3.5 inches. To control the 3.5 inch TFT LCD touch screen, we need another library. This is MCUFRIEND_kbv. The MCUFRIEND_kbv library is, in fact, even easier to use in comparison to the Adafruit TFT LCD library. This library only requires instantiating a TFT object and even does not require specifying pin connections.

TFT LCDs for ArduinoUser interfaces are an essential part of any embedded application. The user interface enables any interaction with the end-user and makes possible the ultimate use of the device. The user interfaces are hosted using a number of devices like seven-segments, character LCDs, graphical LCDs, and full-color TFT LCDs. Out of all these devices, only full-color TFT displays are capable of hosting sophisticated interfaces. A sophisticated user interface may have many data fields to display or may need to host menus and sub-menus or host interactive graphics. A TFT LCD is an active matrix LCD capable of hosting high-quality images.

Arduino operates at low frequency. That is why it is not possible to render high-definition images or videos with Arduino. However, Arduino can control a small TFT display screen rendering graphically enriched data and commands. By interfacing a TFT LCD touch screen with Arduino, it is possible to render interactive graphics, menus, charts, graphs, and user panels.

Some of the popular full-color TFT LCDs available for Arduino include 3.5″ 480×320 display, 2.8″ 400×200 display, 2.4″ 320×240 display and 1.8″ 220×176 display. A TFT screen of appropriate size and resolution can be selected as per a given application.

If the user interface has only graphical data and commands, Atmega328 Arduino boards can control the display. If the user interface is a large program hosting several menus and/or submenus, Arduino Mega2560 should be preferred to control the TFT display. If the user interface needs to host high-resolution images and motions, ARM core Arduino boards like the DUE should be used to control the TFT display.

MCUFRIEND_kbv libraryAdafruit TFT LCD library supports only small TFT displays. For large TFT display shields like 3.5-inch, 3.6-inch, 3.95-inch, including 2.4-inch and 2.8-inch TFT LCDs, MCUFRIEND_kbv library is useful. This library has been designed to control 28-pin TFT LCD shields for Arduino UNO. It also works with Arduino Mega2560. Apart from UNO and Mega2560, the library also supports LEONARDO, DUE, ZERO, and M0-PRO. It also runs on NUCLEO-F103 and TEENSY3.2 with Sparkfun Adapter. The Mcufriend-style shields tend to have a resistive TouchScreen on A1, 7, A2, 6 but are not always in the same direction rotation. The MCUFRIEND_kbv library can be included in an Arduino sketch from the library manager.

The 3.5-inch TFT LCD shield needs to be plugged atop the Arduino board. The Mcufriend-style shields are designed to fit into all the above-mentioned Arduino boards. The shields have a TFT touch screen that can display colorful images and interfaces and a micro SD card reader to save images and other data. A 3.5-inch TFT LCD touch screen has the following pin diagram.

This LCD controller is a VHDL component for use in CPLDs and FPGAs. The controller manages the initialization and data flow to HD44780 compatible 8-bit interface character LCD modules. It was primarily developed pursuant to the Lumex LCD General Information datasheet. This example VHDL component allows simple LCD integration into practically any programmable logic application. Figure 1 depicts the controller implemented to interface between an LCD module and a user’s custom logic.

The LCD controller state machine consists of five states. Upon startup, it immediately enters the Power-up state, where it waits 50ms to ensure the supply voltage has stabilized. It then proceeds to an Initialize state. The controller cycles the LCD through its initialization sequence, setting the LCD’s parameters to default values defined in the hardware. This process completes in approximately 2.2ms, and the controller subsequently assumes a Ready state. It waits in this state until the lcd_enable input is asserted, then advances to the Send state. Here, it communicates the appropriate information to the LCD, as defined by the lcd_bus input. After 50us, it returns to the Ready state until further notice. If a low logic level is applied to the reset_n input at any time for a minimum of one clock cycle, the controller resets to the Power-up state and re-initializes. Figure 2 illustrates the LCD controller state machine.

The LCD controller executes an initialization sequence each time it is powered-up or the reset_n pin is deasserted for a minimum of one clock cycle. The controller asserts the busy pin during initialization. Once initialization completes, the busy pin deasserts, and the LCD controller waits in the Ready state for input from the user logic.

The parameters values are specified by setting the GENENIC parameters in the ENTITY. Table 2 describes the parameters. The user can also send commands to the LCD to change any parameters after initialization.

Upon deassertion of the busy pin, the LCD controller enters the Ready state. The user logic can interface via the lcd_enable and lcd_bus pins to conduct transactions with the LCD module. The user initiates this process by issuing the desired data/instruction to the lcd_bus and asserting the lcd_enable pin. The LCD controller then asserts the busy pin and manages the transaction. When finished, the controller deasserts the busy pin, indicating that it is ready for another instruction. Figure 3 depicts the timing diagram for the beginning of a transaction.

The LCD control logic provided manages the initialization and data flow between custom user logic and the 8-bit interface mode of HD44780 compatible character LCD modules. The user can set the system clock frequency and change the default initialization parameters by setting GENERIC parameters in the ENTITY.