Serial 7-seg Display Board

The Serial 7-seg Display Board features a compact, serial input/output common-cathode display driver MAX7219 used to interface MCUs to 7-segment numeric LED displays via SPI interface. The chip includes a BCD code-B decoder, multiplex scan circuitry, segment and digit drivers and 8×8 static RAM for storing digits. Display drivers are connected to 4 common-cathode LED displays.

The board is equipped with a flat cable ending with IDC10 female header connector, which is compatible with all mikroElektronika development boards. It features four 7-segment digits arranged in a single row.

How to connect the board?

The additional board is connected to a development system via an IDC10 connector on the board and a 2×5 connector on one of the development system’s ports. It is necessary to define in the program, to be loaded into the microcontroller, which port will be used for SPI communication.

The position of SMD jumpers depends on the development system in use. These jumpers are placed in the position marked PIC by default. It means that the board is ready to be used with PIC development systems. If you want to use it with AVR/8051 development systems, it is necessary to unsolder jumpers from the PIC position and resolder them in the AVR/8051 position.

The Serial 7-Seg Display additional board is powered with the 5V power supply from the development system it is connected to.

Displaying digits