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Apendix C 1 Interface A Seven Segment Display To An Arduino

The document discusses interfacing a seven segment display to an Arduino. It describes what a seven segment display is and how it works. It explains that there are common cathode and common anode types, and shows the internal structures of both. The segments are labelled a-g. Numbers and letters are displayed by turning on the appropriate segments. Two experiments are described that demonstrate turning the segments on and off, and counting down from 9 to 0 on the display with a 1 second delay between numbers. Code and wiring diagrams are provided.

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Apendix C 1 Interface A Seven Segment Display To An Arduino

The document discusses interfacing a seven segment display to an Arduino. It describes what a seven segment display is and how it works. It explains that there are common cathode and common anode types, and shows the internal structures of both. The segments are labelled a-g. Numbers and letters are displayed by turning on the appropriate segments. Two experiments are described that demonstrate turning the segments on and off, and counting down from 9 to 0 on the display with a 1 second delay between numbers. Code and wiring diagrams are provided.

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Interface a Seven Segment Display to an Arduino

June 02, 2015 by Tim Youngblood

For many applications, there's no need to use a more expensive liquid crystal display to display data. A
simple seven-segment display is sufficient.

If your Arduino application only needs to display numbers, consider using a seven-segment display. The
severn-segment display has seven LEDs arranged in the shape of number eight. They are easy to use and
cost effective. The picture below shows a typical seven-segment display.

Seven segment displays are of two types: common anode and common cathode. The Internal structure
of both types is nearly the same. The difference is the polarity of the LEDs and common  terminal. In a
common cathode seven-segment display (the one we used in the experiments), all seven LEDs plus a dot
LED have the cathodes connected to pins 3 and pin 8. To use this display, we need to connect  GROUND
to pin 3 and pin 8 and,  and connect +5V to the other pins to make the individual segments light up.
The following diagram shows the internal structure of common-cathode seven-segment display:  

The common anode display is the exact opposite. In a common-anode display, the positive terminal of
all the eight LEDs  are connected together and then connected to pin 3 and pin 8. To turn on an
individual segment, you ground one of the pins. The following diagram shows the internal structure of
the common-anode seven-segment display.

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The seven segment are labelled a-g, with the dot being "dp," as shown in the figure below:

SSD Configuration
To display a particular number, you turn on the individual segments as shown in the table below:
Digit    gfedcba abcdefg a b c d e f g
0             0×3F 0×7E on on on on on on off
1             0×06 0×30 off on on off off off off
2             0×5B 0×6D on on off on on off on  
3             0×4F 0×79 on on on on off off on
4             0×66 0×33 off on on off off on on
5             0×6D 0×5B on off on on off on on
6             0×7D 0×5F on off on on on on on
7             0×07 0×70 on on on off off off off
8             0×7F 0×7F on on on on on on on
9             0×6F 0×7B on on on on off on on
A             0×77 0×77 on on on off on on on
B             0×7C 0×1F off off on on on on on
C             0×39 0×4E on off off on on on off
D             0×5E 0×3D off on on on on off on
E             0×79 0×4F on off off on on on on
F             0×71 0×47 on off off off on on on

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Experiment 1
In this experiment, we will simply turn on and turn off the LEDs to get familiar with how a seven-
segment display works.
Hardware Required

 1 x seven segment display (common cathode)


 1 x Arduino MEGA 2560
 1 x breadboard
 jumper wires

Wiring Diagram
In this circuit, the pins of seven-segment display are connected to Arduino pins 2-9, as shown in the
table below. Common pins (pin 3 and pin 8) are connected to GND and dp is left unconnected, because
it is not used in this experiment    
Seven segment pins Arduino pins Wire Color
1(e) 6 orange
2(d) 5 white
3,8(COM) GND n/a
c 4 yellow
5(dp) -
6(b) 3 red
7(a) 2 blue
9(f) 7 cyan
10(g) 8 green

 Code

void setup()
{
// define pin modes
pinMode(2,OUTPUT);
pinMode(3,OUTPUT);
pinMode(4,OUTPUT);
pinMode(5,OUTPUT);
pinMode(6,OUTPUT);
pinMode(7,OUTPUT);

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pinMode(8,OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
// loop to turn leds od seven seg ON
for(int i=2;i<9;i++)
{
digitalWrite(i,HIGH);
delay(600);
}
// loop to turn leds od seven seg OFF
for(int i=2;i<9;i++)
{
digitalWrite(i,LOW);
delay(600);
}
delay(1000);
}

Experiment 2
Description
In this tutorial, we will be interfacing a seven segment display with Arduino mega and learn to display a
count down from nine with a delay of a second, on seven segment display.
Hardware Required
The hardware required for this experiment is the same as for Experiment 1.
Wiring Diagram
The wiring diagram for this experiment is the same as the circuit for Experiment 1.
Code

// make an array to save Sev Seg pin configuration of numbers


int num_array[10][7] = { { 1,1,1,1,1,1,0 }, // 0
{ 0,1,1,0,0,0,0 }, // 1
{ 1,1,0,1,1,0,1 }, // 2
{ 1,1,1,1,0,0,1 }, // 3
{ 0,1,1,0,0,1,1 }, // 4
{ 1,0,1,1,0,1,1 }, // 5
{ 1,0,1,1,1,1,1 }, // 6
{ 1,1,1,0,0,0,0 }, // 7
{ 1,1,1,1,1,1,1 }, // 8

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{ 1,1,1,0,0,1,1 }}; // 9
//function header
void Num_Write(int);
void setup()
{
// set pin modes
pinMode(2, OUTPUT);
pinMode(3, OUTPUT);
pinMode(4, OUTPUT);
pinMode(5, OUTPUT);
pinMode(6, OUTPUT);
pinMode(7, OUTPUT);
pinMode(8, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
//counter loop
for (int counter = 10; counter > 0; --counter)
{
delay(1000);
Num_Write(counter-1);
}
delay(3000);
}
// this functions writes values to the sev seg pins
void Num_Write(int number)
{
int pin= 2;
for (int j=0; j < 7; j++) {
digitalWrite(pin, num_array[number][j]);
pin++;
}
}

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