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7 Segment Display
There are 4 7 segment displays mounted on the CT Board. The displays can be accessed over two different interfaces:
- The binary interface, for HEX representation of binary values
- The "raw" interface, for independent controll over each segment
Depending on the used addresses the display will switch automatically.
Segment Control
This is the “raw” interface. Each segment of the display can be controled independently. The segments are “active-low”, e.g. the segment is on if a logical “0” is written to it.
Programming Example
The code snippet bellow shows how to use the 7 segment display in segment control mode.
#include "reg_ctboard.h" CT_SEG7->RAW.BYTE.DS0 = (uint8_t) data_byte; /* Write byte of segment data to DS0. */ CT_SEG7->RAW.HWORD.DS3_2 = (uint16_t) data_halfword; /* Write half word of segment data to DS3..2. */ CT_SEG7->RAW.WORD = (uint32_t) data_word; /* Write word of segment data to all displays. */
Registers
Diagram
HEX Display
Additionally the display can be used as HEX display. All 4 displays can directly show a 16 bit binary value.
In this mode the display can't be switched off, use the raw interface.
Programming Example
The code snippet bellow shows how to use the 7 segment display as HEX display.
#include "reg_ctboard.h" CT_SEG7->BIN.BYTE.DS1_0 = (uint8_t) data_byte; /* Write byte of binary data to DS1..0. */ CT_SEG7->BIN.HWORD = (uint16_t) data_halfword; /* Write half word of binary data to all displays. */