Experiment No: 5b vtu-11590

Date: 19-11-2020

SEVEN SEGMENT INTERFACING WITH ARM7

Aim: Interface the Seven segment with ARM7 microprocessor with the
necessary embedded C programming

Equipment Required:

1. Personal Computer
2. Keil IDE
3. Proteus 8.0 Professional software

Theory:

7 segment displays are among the simplest display units to display the numbers
and characters. It is generally used to display numbers and has brighter illumination and
simpler construction than dot matrix display. And because of brighter illumination, the output
can be viewed from larger distance than LCD.

As shown in the below image of a 7-segment display, it consists of 8 LEDs, each

LED used to illuminate one segment of unit and the 8thLED used to illuminate DOT in 7
segment display. 8thLED is used when two or more 7-segment modules are used, for
example to display (0.1). A single module is used to display single digit or character. To
display more than one digit or character, multiple 7-segments are used.

Common Cathode
In this all the Negative terminals (cathode) of all the 8 LEDs are connected together
(see diagram below), named as COM. And all the positive terminals are left alone or
connected to the microcontroller pins. If we use microcontroller we set logic HIGH to
illuminate the particular and set LOW to turn OFF LED.
Seven Segment Layout:

Number gfedcba Hex Code

0 0111111 3F

1 0000110 06

2 1011011 5B

3 1001111 4F

4 1100110 66

5 1101101 6D

6 1111101 7D

7 0000111 07

8 1111111 7F

9 1001111 67
Program:
#include<lpc214x.h>
int main(){
unsigned char No[11]={0x3F,0x06,0x5B,0x4f,0x66,0x6D,0x7D,0x07,0x7F,0x67};
PINSEL0=0X00000000;
IO0DIR=0X0000000FF;
for(int i=0;No[i]!=0;i++){
IO0CLR=0X000000FF;
IOSET0=No[i];
for(int j=0;j<=1000000;j++);
}
return 0;
}
keil-Program:
proteus-Output:
Inference:

Its mandatory to clear the previous 7-segment data before loading new data, as these
segments are shared among these data. From this experiment I had learnt how to generate
continuous incrementation of numbers from 0 to 9. In this experiment the loop is infinity it
print continuously with a delay.

Result:

Thus, the 7-segmnet was successfully interfaced with ARM7 microprocessor.