[En-Nut-Discussion] ethernut board 3.1 LCD support

[Paul Govers]

Hi Ulrich,

Thats great that you working on an LCD driver for the ethernut 3.1 board!
i will try tonight to get my LCD display working with my Ethernut 3.1 board,
i have read the documentatie about the HD44780 and it seems not to difficult

greetings
Paul


uprinz wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> yes, I am working on the LCD support for ARM. I am working on a lot of 
> display support, but I found out really fast that it doesn't make sense 
> to just add another driver. As it is difficult to do all at once and I 
> sometimes like to do some small projects to have success in a few 
> evenings, I started with the small drivers.
> 
> HD44780 is the first one.
> Trouble targets that I already identified are:
> - It interferes with the ST7036 drivers as both use same defines for 
> configuration. If the latter is configured in your conf-file, the first 
> gets overwritten. If you delete the defines from the second one, the 
> bild fails.
> - Interface timing is problematic as it uses fixed loop counts of 
> numerous _NOP(). This is difficult as one has to manually trim this 
> loops for the dedicated hardware
> - NutMicroDelay is not brilliant to, as the way it is trimmed at system 
> startup introduces a lot of variance too.
> 
> As a HD44780 is a more or less slow interface, I actually base the 
> rewrite on NutMicroDelay and accept that the timing is half at least 
> half as fast as it needs to be. After releasing the driver I will 
> optimize NutMicroDelay() if no one other did before. (It's not that 
> simple as it has to be written in assembler.)
> 
> The things with HD44780 are a bit weired. The scope says, the setup and 
> data is ok but the display says nothing or just character-salad. May be 
> I should release the driver as a Scope-Display for geeks who read binary
> :)
> 
> Best regards, Ulrich
> 
> Am 05.05.2010 12:04, schrieb Paul Govers:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I want to connect an lcd 4x40 display to an ethernut 3.1 board, but many
>> things have changed from ethernut 2...
>> i found an manual: enan001.pdf with information about
>> how to connect an lcd display to an ethernut board, but i think this is
>> nut
>> for an ethernut board 3.1
>>
>> Harald already has replied on my question and he let me know that Ulrich
>> Prinz is currently working on LCD support for ARM. i was wondering when
>> LCD support for ARM will be included in ethernut?
>>
>> (my display controller=hd447080 )
>>
>>   many thanks
>>
>>   greetings
>> Paul Govers
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