LED BASED MOVING MESSAGE DISPLAY

A
Technical Paper submitted to

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

in partial fulfillment of the requirement

for the award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY

in

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

by
SIRIPURAM SANJAY

(H.T.No:20TR1A04B0)

Under the guidance of

Mrs.D.KAVITHA
Assistant professor
.

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

SREE CHAITANYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGICAL
SCIENCES
(Affiliated to JNTUH, HYDERABAD)
THIMMAPOOR, KARIMNAGAR, TS-505 527.
2020-2024

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 SREE CHAITANYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGICAL
SCIENCES,
THIMMAPOOR, KARIMNAGAR, TS-505 527

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the Technical Seminar report entitled “LED BASED
MOVING MESSAGE DISPLAY” is being submitted by SIRIPURAM SANJAY
bearing a 20TR1A04B0 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the
Degree of Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering,
to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, is a bonafide work
carried out by him under my guidance and supervision.
The result embodied in this report has not been submitted to any other
University or Institution for the award of any degree or diploma.

Under the guidance of Head of the Department

Mrs. D.KAVITHA Mr.V.PRAVEEN KUMAR,
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor,
Department of ECE, Department of ECE,
Sree Chaitanya Institute of Sree Chaitanya Institute of
Technological Sciences. Technological Sciences

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Satisfaction that accomplishes the successful completion of any

task would be incomplete without the mention of the people who make it
possible and whose constant guidance and encouragement crown all the
efforts with success.
It is my privilege and pleasure to express my profound sense of
respect, gratitude and indebtedness to my
supervisorMrs.D.KAVITHA,Assistant Professor,Department of ECE,
SCITS, for her constant guidance, inspiration, and constant encouragement
throughout this Technical Seminarwork.
I wish to express our deep gratitude to Mr.V.PRAVEEN KUMAR,
AssociateProfessorand HOD, Department of ECE, SCITS, karimnagarfor
his cooperation and encouragement, in addition to providing necessary
facilities throughout the Technical seminar work
I sincerely extend my thanks to Dr.A.PRASAD RAJU, Principal,
SCITS, Karimnagar, for providing all the facilities required for completion
of this Seminar.
I would like to thank all the staff and all my friends for their good
wishes, their helping hand and constructive criticism, which led the
successful completion of this Technical Seminar.
I am immensely indebted to our parents, brothers and sisters for their
love and unshakable belief in us and the understanding and ever-decreasing
grudges for not spending time more often. I will now, since the excuse is in
the process of vanishing by being printed on these very pages.
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 Finally, I thank all those who directly and indirectly helped me in this
regard.I apologize for not listing everyone here.
SIRIPURAM SANJAY
20TR1A04B0

DECLARATION

Ihereby declare that the work which is being presented in this dissertation entitled,
“LED BASED MOVING MESSAGE DISPLAY” submitted towards the partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelorof Technology in
Electronics and Communication Engineering, S.C.I.T.S, Karimnagar, is an authentic
record of my own work carried out under the supervision of Mrs.D.KAVITHAAssistant
professor ,Department of ECE, SCITS, Karimnagar.

To the best of our knowledge and belief, this Technical Seminar bears no
resemblance with any report submitted to SCITS or any other University for the award of
any degree or diploma.

Date: SIRIPURAM SANJAY

Place:KARIMNAGAR 20TR1A04B0

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 ABSTRACT

LED-based moving-message displays are becoming popular for transmitting

information to large groups of people quickly. These can be used indoors or outdoors.
We can find such displays in areas like railway platforms, banks, public offices, hotels,
training institutes, nightclubs and shops. Compared to LEDs, liquid-crystal displays
(LCDs) are easy to interface with a microcontroller for displaying information as these
have many built-in functions. But these can’t be observed from a distance and large size
LCDs are very costly.

LED-based displays can be of two types: dot-matrix and segmental. If you

implement a moving-message display with multiplexed dot-matrix LEDs, it will be very
costly for displaying 16 characters or more at a time. Moreover, programming will
require a lot of data memory or program memory space. An external RAM may be
needed to complement a microcontroller like AT89C51. However, if you use
alphanumeric (16-segment LED) displays for the above purpose, programming burden
is reduced and also it becomes highly cost-effective. You can make your own display
panel consisting of 16 alphanumeric characters at a much lower cost. The circuit
presented here uses 16 common-anode, single-digit, alphanumeric displays to show 16
characters at a time.

SANJAY
SIRIPURAM2
0TR1A04B0

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 CONTENTS
TITLE Pg.No
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS iii
DECLARATION iv
ABSTRACT v
CONTENTS Vi
LIST OF FIGURES Vii
CHAPTER - 1: INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER - 2: WHAT IS LED 3
CHAPTER – 3: CONSTRUCTION OF LED 5
CHAPTER – 4: USAGES OF THE LED 7
4.1Expansion of led usage 7
4.2Serial-in parallel-out shift registers 8
4.3 Display scanning 10
CHAPTER-5: TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION 11
5.1 Testing procedure 11
5.2 Stand-alone photovoltaic system 11
5.3 implementation of the moving message display 13
CHAPTER – 6: DESIGN OF LED 15
6.1 Desing starategy 15
6.2 Row switching 15
6.3 Column switching 15
6.4 Test result 16
CHAPTER – 7: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES 18
7.1Features 18
7.2Advantages of led 18
7.3Disadvantages of led 19
CONCLUSION 20

REFERENCE 21

LIST OF FIGURES
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Fig.1.1 Stand– alone PV powered message display panel. 2

Fig.2.1 Led diagram 5
Fig.3.1 Construction of led 6
Fig.4.1.1 Configuration of 5x7 dot-matrix. 8
Fig.4.3.1 Scanning of the led display. 10
Fig5.2.1 Schematic diagram of a charge controller circuit. 12
Fig5.2.2 The implementation charge controller on a strip board 12
Fig 5.3.1 Block diagram of the circuit elements. 13
Fig 5.3.2 Sockets and dot-matrices mounted on a Stripboard. 14
Fig 6.3.1 Simplified diagram of the display panel debugging software. 15
Fig 6.4.1 Two stripboard display PHOTOVOLTAIC without spacing. 16
Fig 6.4.2 Message display for Arabic characters. 16
Fig6.4.3 The moving message display for 22 characters 17
Fig 6.4.4 The display panel inside the enclosure 17

LIST OF TABLES
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Table 3.1 Internal archirecture of led 5