
3.5" inch TFT LCD Display Module 480X320 driven with FSMC.
TFT LCD Display Module 480X320 driven with FSMC
I have recently bought a 3.5" inch TFT LCD Touch Screen Display Module 480X320 with a www.mcufriend.com
label on the back side. The display was equipped with an 8bit parallel interface. First I decided to test it with the UniGraphic library using the BUS_8
protocol. The display was very slow but improved when I switched to the PAR_8
protocol. Because I heard about the possibility to use a Flexible Static Memory Controller (FSMC), built into some STM MCU's, to drive LCD's (read/write to LCD's memory rather than to an external SRAM) I thought it would be a fun to try it out.
Below is the brief story of what I did:
- Created a project for my STM32F407VE board in the STM32CubeIDE
- Set the
Clock Configuration
to match the one used by Mbed for the Seeed Arch Max board:
- Selected
FSMC
in theConnectivity
category and configured it as below: - Let the
STM32CubeIDE
generate the code (files). - Created a new program for the Seeed Arch Max target in the Mbed Online Compiler by selecting a
mbed os blinky
template. - Replaced the
main.cpp
with themain.c
content of theSTM32CubeIDE
project. Copy & Pasted
the other files with codes from theSTM32CubeIDE
project to the online compiler project.- Renamed and modified:
"stm32f4xx_it.h" to "stm32f4xx_it_msp.h"
"stm32f4xx_it.c" to "stm32f4xx_it_msp.c" - Added the UniGraphic library to the online compiler project.
- Extended the
UniGraphic
library with aFSMC_8
protocol and replaced theTFT::set_orientation(int orient)
function with the one used bymcufriend
for arduino. - Modified the
main.cpp
as needed.
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Wiring
STM32F407VE | TFT LCD module |
---|---|
+3.3V | 3V3 |
GND | GND |
PB_12 | LCD_RST |
GND | LCD_CS |
PD_13 (RS) | LCD_RS |
PD_5 (WR) | LCD_WR |
PD_4 (RD) | LCD_RD |
PD_14 (DB00) | LCD_D0 |
PD_15 (DB01) | LCD_D1 |
PD_0 (DB02) | LCD_D2 |
PD_1 (DB03) | LCD_D3 |
PE_7 (DB04) | LCD_D4 |
PE_8 (DB05) | LCD_D5 |
PE_9 (DB06) | LCD_D6 |
PE_10 (DB07) | LCD_D7 |
Results
Execution times | ||
---|---|---|
Used protocol | BUS_8 | FSMC_8 |
Operation \ Time | ms | ms |
Clear | 2283.980 | 38.454 |
Plot | 192.066 | 11.365 |
8bit BMP | 63.805 | 41.338 |
Large Font | 163.872 | 7.895 |
Sparce pixels | 2072.265/1458.051 | 74.107/52.168 |
16bit BMP | 2288.589 | 59.904 |
UniGraphic/Protocols/I2C_bus.cpp
- Committer:
- hudakz
- Date:
- 2020-05-10
- Revision:
- 0:fa952828e34c
File content as of revision 0:fa952828e34c:
/* mbed UniGraphic library - I2C protocol class * Copyright (c) 2017 Peter Drescher * Released under the MIT License: http://mbed.org/license/mit * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN * THE SOFTWARE. */ #include "I2C_bus.h" I2C_bus::I2C_bus(int Hz, int address, PinName sda, PinName scl) : _i2c(sda,scl) { _i2c.frequency(Hz); _address = address; //hw_reset(); } void I2C_bus::wr_cmd8(unsigned char cmd) { char tmp[2]; tmp[0] = 0x00; //command tmp[1] = cmd; _i2c.write(_address,tmp,2); } void I2C_bus::wr_data8(unsigned char data) { _i2c.write(data); // write 8bit } void I2C_bus::wr_cmd16(unsigned short cmd) { char tmp[3]; tmp[0] = 00; //command tmp[1] = cmd>>8; tmp[2] = cmd&0xFF; _i2c.write(_address,tmp,3); } void I2C_bus::wr_data16(unsigned short data) { _i2c.write(data>>8); // write 8bit _i2c.write(data&0xFF); // write 8bit } void I2C_bus::wr_gram(unsigned short data) { _i2c.write(data>>8); // write 8bit _i2c.write(data&0xFF); // write 8bit } void I2C_bus::wr_gram(unsigned short data, unsigned int count) { _i2c.start(); _i2c.write(_address); _i2c.write(0x40); // data continue if((data>>8)==(data&0xFF)) { count<<=1; while(count) { _i2c.write(data); // write 8bit count--; } } else { while(count) { _i2c.write(data>>8); // write 8bit _i2c.write(data&0xFF); // write 8bit count--; } } _i2c.stop(); } void I2C_bus::wr_grambuf(unsigned short* data, unsigned int lenght) { _i2c.start(); _i2c.write(_address); _i2c.write(0x40); // data continue while(lenght) { _i2c.write((*data)>>8); // write 8bit _i2c.write((*data)&0xFF); // write 8bit data++; lenght--; } _i2c.stop(); } void I2C_bus::hw_reset() { } void I2C_bus::BusEnable(bool enable) { } void I2C_bus::reg_select(unsigned char reg, bool forread) { } unsigned int I2C_bus::rd_reg_data32(unsigned char reg) { return 0; } unsigned int I2C_bus::rd_extcreg_data32(unsigned char reg, unsigned char SPIreadenablecmd) { return 0; } void I2C_bus::dummyread() { } unsigned short I2C_bus::rd_gram(bool convert) { return (0); } unsigned short I2C_bus::reg_read(unsigned char reg) { return (0); } void I2C_bus::reg_write(unsigned char reg, unsigned short data) { }