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Color LCD project

Postby wilson » Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:50 pm

Hi,
I am planning to do some GUI using PIC32 with TFT LCD, anyone have suggestion?
I have found a source with video from
http://www.lelong.com.my/tft-lcd-module ... Sale-P.htm

But it is using STM32. Is PIC32 sufficient to draw LCD?

Thanks for help.
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Re: Color LCD project

Postby takao21203 » Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:50 am

Sure it is but use a PIC with a larger FLASH- 128K or more.

Because number of instructions = FLASH kbytes/4.

The 80MHz PICs are very fast actually.
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Re: Color LCD project

Postby wilson » Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:50 am

takao21203 WROTE:Sure it is but use a PIC with a larger FLASH- 128K or more.

Because number of instructions = FLASH kbytes/4.

The 80MHz PICs are very fast actually.


But Stm32F4 series is up to 180MHz :o my worry is refreshing color LCD will be slow and reduce response. Thanks.
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Re: Color LCD project

Postby takao21203 » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:05 am

I would worry about that at all. What do you want to display?
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Re: Color LCD project

Postby wilson » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:12 am

I want to use color lcd to display text that received from Bluetooth, meanwhile, also need to draw a graphics meter to represent angle sensor position, that mean, when angle change, meter will move.
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Re: Color LCD project

Postby Brian Griffin » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:43 am

Do you have the datasheet for the LCD? These LCDs often contain a "Vertical Sync" pulse pin, so you can update the frame (display) by microcontroller everytime the Vertical Sync pin is up.

For a lot more speed, you have to use the DMA (Direct Memory Access) modules in the ARM/PIC32 processors. The DMA streams (moves) blocks of data without CPU intervention into the GPIOs where these will be connected to the data lines for the LCD.
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Re: Color LCD project

Postby wilson » Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:57 pm

Thanks for your suggestion. I have datasheet, but not familiar with DMA anyway i will try.
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