UM10726 User manual for the PCA8538 evaluation board OM13501A Rev. 2 — 18 July 2013 User manual Document information Info Content Keywords LCD driver, segment driver, COG, Chip-On-Glass, PCA8538, Vertical Alignment (VA) Abstract This evaluation board can be used to demonstrate and evaluate the PCA8538 segment driver. This is a chip-on-glass LCD driver which can drive up to 918 segments in MUX 1:9. The board contains only the display module, some decoupling capacitors and some jumpers. The 2 jumpers can be used for interface selection (I C or SPI). A pin strip has been provided as well, which makes it easy to connect the board to any microcontroller and power supply, and start developing an application. UM10726 NXP Semiconductors User manual PCA8538 evaluation board Revision history Rev Date Description 2 2nd revision 20130718 Type number of board corrected, from OM13502 to OM13501A 1 20130702 First version Contact information For more information, please visit: http://www.nxp.com For sales office addresses, please send an email to: [email protected] UM10726 User manual All information provided in this document is subject to legal disclaimers. Rev. 2 — 18 July 2013 © NXP B.V. 2013. All rights reserved. 2 of 10 UM10726 NXP Semiconductors User manual PCA8538 evaluation board 1. Introduction This user manual describes the PCA8538 evaluation board. The board contains a COG display module, some decoupling capacitors for the power supply and some jumpers to configure the display driver. The PCA8538 is a peripheral device which interfaces to almost any Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) with low multiplex rates. It generates the drive signals for any static or multiplexed LCD containing up to nine backplanes, 102 segments and up to 918 display elements. The PCA8538 features an internal charge pump with internal capacitors for onchip generation of the LCD driving voltage. To ensure an optimal and stable contrast over the full temperature range, the PCA8538 offers a programmable temperature compensation of the LCD supply voltage. The PCA8538 can be easily controlled by a microcontroller through either the two-line I2C-bus or a four-line bidirectional SPI-bus. It is AEC Q100 grade 2 compliant for automotive applications. Please refer to the PCA8538 datasheet as well while working with this board. This board was developed in order to provide a low cost tool for engineers, wishing to demonstrate and evaluate this LCD driver, and to get hands-on experience with writing code for it. Code written using this board can serve as an example for the final application. This enables rapid prototyping. The board can be connected to any existing application with either I2C-bus or SPI-bus interface. This application then needs to provide also the power supply, with the supply voltage ranging from 2.5 V to 5.5 V. Features: • Provides tool for evaluating the PCA8538 LCD driver • Features a vertical alignment (VA) COG display module with integrated backlight • Jumpers for interface selection (I2C or SPI) • Jumper for selection of internal or external oscillator • Connector pins for easy connection to external microcontroller or application UM10726 User manual All information provided in this document is subject to legal disclaimers. Rev. 2 — 18 July 2013 © NXP B.V. 2013. All rights reserved. 3 of 10 UM10726 NXP Semiconductors User manual PCA8538 evaluation board 2. Board description and layout Fig 1 shows a picture of the board. Fig 1. PCA8538 evaluation board For best optical performance, remove the protective foil from the display. The jumpers are visible on the left, the pins for connecting the module are at the bottom of the board. 3. Board schematic and layout The schematic of the board is given in Fig 2. The board contains the display module (on the left) with integrated backlight module, indicated on the right as “LED Backlight”. In addition it contains decoupling capacitors for VDD (C1) and for VLCD (C2). The network R1/C3 pulls down the RESET pin when the module is powered up, thus generating a reset (active LOW). Pin 1 can also be connected to a GPIO of a microcontroller, allowing the microcontroller to generate a reset. UM10726 User manual All information provided in this document is subject to legal disclaimers. Rev. 2 — 18 July 2013 © NXP B.V. 2013. All rights reserved. 4 of 10 UM10726 NXP Semiconductors User manual PCA8538 evaluation board VLCD can either be generated by the internal charge pump or it can be supplied with a second supply voltage (pin 13 of connector P1). In that case the internal charge pump must be disabled. Jumper JP6 should be removed when using an external VLCD supply voltage. Fig 2. PCA8538 evaluation board schematic 3.1 Jumper settings The board contains seven jumpers. Five are required for the interface selection. There is one jumper for oscillator selection and one jumper related to VLCD. Table 1. Jumper Interface selection jumpers SPI-bus I2C-bus JP1, IFS VSS (GND) VDD JP2, nCE active LOW, chip enable unused, connect to VDD JP4, SA0 VSS VSS for logic 0, VDD for logic 1 JP5, SA1 VSS VSS for logic 0, VDD for logic 1 JP7, SDAOUT unused, connect to VSS (Place) serial data output (Remove jumper) The other jumpers are listed in Table 2. UM10726 User manual All information provided in this document is subject to legal disclaimers. Rev. 2 — 18 July 2013 © NXP B.V. 2013. All rights reserved. 5 of 10 UM10726 NXP Semiconductors User manual PCA8538 evaluation board Table 2. Jumpers for oscillator and VLCD selection Jumpers settings JP3, OSC VSS, internal oscillator VDD, external oscillator JP6, VLCD placed, internal VLCD removed, external VLCD If pin OSC is tied to VSS, CLK is the output pin of the internal oscillator. If pin OSC is tied to VDD, CLK is the input pin for the external oscillator. Fig 3 below shows the board layout. Fig 3. UM10726 User manual PCA8538 evaluation board layout All information provided in this document is subject to legal disclaimers. Rev. 2 — 18 July 2013 © NXP B.V. 2013. All rights reserved. 6 of 10 UM10726 NXP Semiconductors User manual PCA8538 evaluation board 4. Software code example Section 8 of the PCA8538 data sheet contains all the commands and their description. In order to write software for this driver, it will be necessary to read the datasheet. Below, an example for the configuration of this module is listed. Exact details of how to write the functions are left to the programmer. This example shows the data to be sent to the PCA8538 to configure it for use with the module on this board. I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite I2CWrite = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = PCA8538_ADDR; 0b10000000; // 0x3A; // 0b10000000; // 0xD8; // 0b10000000; // 0x18; // 0b10000000; // 0xD4; // 0b10000000; // 0xC9; // 0b10000000; // 0x45; // 0b10000000; // 0x73; // 0b10000000; // 0x00; // 0b10000000; // 0xD0; // 0b10000000; // 0xB3; // 0b10000000; // 0x39; // 0b10000000; // 0x80; // 0b10000000; // 0x90; // 0b10000000; // 0xA0; // 0b00100000; // control byte Initialize control byte OTP refresh control byte Device Select 0 control byte CLKOUT disabled control byte Charge pump enabled, Vlcd = 3*Vdd2 control byte set VLCD, MSB control byte set VLCD, LSB. VLCD = 6.4 V control byte Temp. comp. and measurement disabled control byte Set 1/4 bias control byte Driving scheme C, 3-line inversion control byte Display enable control byte Set Data pointer x-MSB = 0 control byte Set Data pointer x-LSB = 0 control byte Set Data pointer y = 0 Write to DDRAM 5. References The document listed below provides further useful information. It is available at NXP’s website www.nxp.com. [1] PCA8538: Automotive 102 x 9 Chip-On-Glass LCD Segment driver, Product data sheet UM10726 User manual All information provided in this document is subject to legal disclaimers. Rev. 2 — 18 July 2013 © NXP B.V. 2013. All rights reserved. 7 of 10 UM10726 NXP Semiconductors User manual PCA8538 evaluation board 6. Legal information application and use of customer’s third party customer(s). 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All information provided in this document is subject to legal disclaimers. Rev. 2 — 18 July 2013 © NXP B.V. 2013. All rights reserved. 8 of 10 UM10726 NXP Semiconductors User manual PCA8538 evaluation board 7. List of figures Fig 1. Fig 2. Fig 3. PCA8538 evaluation board ............................... 4 PCA8538 evaluation board schematic .............. 5 PCA8538 evaluation board layout ..................... 6 UM10726 User manual All information provided in this document is subject to legal disclaimers. Rev. 2 — 18 July 2013 © NXP B.V. 2013. All rights reserved. 9 of 10 UM10726 NXP Semiconductors User manual PCA8538 evaluation board 8. Contents 1. 2. 3. 3.1 4. 5. 6. 6.1 6.2 6.3 7. 8. Introduction ......................................................... 3 Board description and layout ............................. 4 Board schematic and layout............................... 4 Jumper settings .................................................. 5 Software code example ...................................... 7 References ........................................................... 7 Legal information ................................................ 8 Definitions .......................................................... 8 Disclaimers......................................................... 8 Trademarks ........................................................ 8 List of figures....................................................... 9 Contents ............................................................. 10 Please be aware that important notices concerning this document and the product(s) described herein, have been included in the section 'Legal information'. © NXP B.V. 2013. All rights reserved. For more information, please visit: http://www.nxp.com For sales office addresses, please send an email to: [email protected] Date of release: 18 July 2013 Document identifier: UM10726