GRAPHICAL LCD DRIVER

Abstract:
The objective of the project is to construct a driver for graphical LCD which supports the both character and picture display given by a serial port from a PC. A liquid crystal display (LCD) is an electro-optical amplitude modulator realized as a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light source or reflector. It is often utilized in battery-powered electronic devices because it uses very small amounts of electric power. Each pixel of an LCD typically consists of a layer of molecules aligned between two transparent electrodes, and two polarizing filters, the axes of transmission of which are perpendicular to each other. With no actual liquid crystal between the polarizing filters, light passing through the first filter would be blocked by the second (crossed) polarizer. Our system contains a microcontroller whose one of the port pins are connected to the serial interface of a PC and the other port pins is connected to the input pins of LCD the input to the microcontroller is characters or a image in the bitmap format. The data and the control signals are driven from the PC. First the data to be displayed on the LCD is to be loaded into a PC and through serial port of PC data is loaded into the microcontroller on sending the data to be displayed and the start signal, the microcontroller generates the initialization commands of LCD and then data is fed to the LCD and the picture is displayed on the LCD. Thus the LCD responds as per the driver functions driven by the microcontroller.

Block Diagram:

Power Supply

LPC2148
MICRO CONTROLLER

GRAPHICAL LCD