Interfacing TFT LCD with micro controller

The objective of the project is to interfacing TFT LCD with ARM7 LPC2148 microcontroller

Now a day’s so many useful technologies are coming out to make our life style more comfort,
luxurious and secure. With advancements in technologies now we are able to design more user
friendly systems with low cost.

Now a day’s users expecting smart products with more innovation, creativity, user friendly and
security, etc. So in this project we are designing a system to display effective pleasant images
based on our application these images are displayed on the TFT LCD for more clarity of the
picture.

The major components used in the project are TFT 3.2” 240×320 pixel 16-bit color LCD and
ARM7 based LPC2148 32 bit micro controller. We will store the images binary data in micro
controller memory and send this data to TFT LCD through TFT LCD data lines and control
lines. These displays are useful in all graphical images applications

TFT LCD (Thin film transistor liquid crystal display) is a variant of liquid crystal
display (LCD) which uses thin-film transistor (TFT) technology to improve image qualities such
as addressability and contrast. TFT LCD is an active matrix LCD, in contrast to passive
matrix LCDs or simple, direct-driven LCDs with a few segments.

The NXP (founded by Philips) LPC2148 is an ARM7TDMI-S based high-performance 32-bit

RISC Microcontroller with Thumb extensions 512KB on-chip Flash ROM with In-System
Programming (ISP), 32KB RAM, Two UARTs, Two I2C serial interfaces, Two SPI serial
interfaces Two 32-bit timers, Real Time Clock with optional battery backup.
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Software Tools:

 KEIL IDE for developing micro controller code

 ORCAD for designing schematics
 FLASH MAGIC for dumping the hex file into controller

Hardware Tools:

 ARM7 based LPC2148 Micro controller.

 TFT LCD.
 Regulated +3.3v and +5v Power supply.

Advantages:

 No need of take print of photos

 Easy to use
 Effective and attractive display system
 Multiple images can be displayed

Applications:

 All small graphical display application