Easy 4-digits 7 segment LED Display

Hardware Manual Rev 1r0

Wire it on your microcontroller circuit, or hook it up

on your PC parallel port, and you will be able to display 4 digit numbers with little programming effort.
Also functions as a stand alone digital counter.

FEATURES & SPECIFICATIONS

5V Power Supply
2 Available modes (Digit Display mode and
Counter mode).
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
Stand alone Digital Counter

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MAJOR COMPONENTS PRESENTATION

Bo!om View

Figure 1. Easy 4-digits 7 segment LED display and major components presenta!on

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Figure 2. Easy 4-digits 7 segment LED display JP2 Pin

Figure 3. Easy 4-digits 7 segment LED display

JP1 Pins

If the JP2 header pins has a jumper a!ached Table 1. JP1 Pins Pin Descrip!on and fnc!ons
to it, you are in Counter Mode and to enter the DigPin I.D.
Func"on
its Display Mode just remove the jumper a!ached.
GND
Ground
5V
5V Power Supply
When in digit display mode the JP1 pins D3D3
I/O
D0 became binary inputs and the UP and DOWN
D2
I/O
func"ons will be disabled.
D1/UP
I/O/Increment
D0/DOWN
I/O/Decrement
Shi#/Clear
Shi# register/Clear counter

Table 2. Binary register in digit display mode

Func"on
Display Registers (BCD F)
Load BCD 1
Load BCD 2
Load BCD 3
Load BCD 4
Load BCD 5
Load BCD 6
Load BCD 7
Load BCD 8
Load BCD 9
Load BCD 0
Load BCD A
Load BCD B
Load BCD C
Load BCD D

D3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
1
1

D2
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1

D1
1
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
0

Load BCD E

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1 = High
0 = Low
D0
1
1
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
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OPERATIONS - DISPLAY MODE & COUNTER MODE

Features (Display Mode)
Internal 4 stage shi# buffer
Internal pull-up resistors (data and control lines)
Display numbers 0-9 as well as characters A-E (F is used as instruc"on to display out the content of the 4
buffers
42 frames per second maximum opera"ng speed
Display Mode Opera"on
The device is in display mode when the jumper mode selector is open. In this mode, the device just
wait for a high to low transi"on in the Shi# pin and when it detects a transi"on, its reads D3-D0, shi# it in the
4 stage buffer if it is data (0-9 or A-E) or display the content of the buffers when it receives an F (1111).
On power up or upon switching from counter mode to display mode, the display shows 8888 (four 8s)
but the contents of the buffers are all 0s. This can be proven by sending F (1111) first.
Ex: Displaying 1234 to the 4-digit display:
1. Load BCD 1 to D0-D4 then toggle Shi# line.

2. Load BCD 2 to D0-D4 then toggle Shi# line.

3. Load BCD 3 to D0-D4 then toggle Shi# line.

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4. Load BCD 4 to D0-D4 then toggle Shi# line.

5. Load F (1111) to D0-D4 then toggle Shi# line.

Features (Counter mode)

Up, down and Reset pins
Counts from 0000-9999
Internal pull-up resistors (data and control lines)
140 counts per second maximum (see "ming diagram)
Counter Mode Opera"on
The device is in counter mode when jumper mode selector is close. In this mode, D1, D0 and Shi#
pins becomes the Up, Down and Reset pins respec"vely (D3 and D2 has no func"on). To operate the counter, all it needs is a high to low transi"on on any of its pins. One way is to short any pin to ground. Note that
the counter is fast and it has no internal debounce protec"on when mechanical contact (switch) is used
which can cause mul"ple counts. To avoid this problem, simply add a capacitor (10 100 nF typical) to each
input pin going to ground or simply parallel to the switch or contact.

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CONNECTING TO MICROCONTROLLERS

Figure 4. Easy 4-digits

7 segment LED display
Connected to a microcontroller through
GPIO port

Figure 5. Easy 4-digits 7 segment LED display

Connected to gizDuino microcontroller.

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Figure 6. Timing Diagram of Digit Display Mode.

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Gnd
5V
D3
D2
D1/Up
D0/Down
Shift/Clear

JP1

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
HEADER 7

Function Select

0 - Display Mode
1 - Counter Mode

JP2

1
JUMPER

F1
FUSE1

R11
R10
10
R9 K
10 K
R8
10 K
10 K

8
9
10
7
6

D1
DIODE

XTAL1/CE
XTAL2

P31/OE
P32/EPM
P33/VPP

+ C2
220uF/16V

VCC

P00/CLR
P01/CLK
P02/PGM
P20/D0
P21/D1
P22/D2
P23/D3
P24/D4
P25/D5
P26/D6
P27/D7

C3
104

U2

11
12
13
15
16
17
18
1
2
3
4
Z86E04

VCC

R15

Q3
PNP

R14

Q2
PNP

R13

Q1
PNP

R12

5.1 K
R18
1.5 K

5.1 K
R17
1.5 K

5.1 K
R16
1.5 K

5.1 K

Q4
PNP

R19
1.5 K

U1
4 DIGIT 7-SEGMENT DISPLAY

R20 R21 R22 R23 R24 R25 R26

150 150 150 150 150 150 150

VCC

U3
74HC595

4 Digit Display / Up-Down Counter

VCC

GND

QH'

QH

QG

SCLR

10

SCLK

11

QF

QE

RCLK
12

OE
13

VCC

R1R2R3R4R5R6
10 10
K 10
K 10
K 10
K 10
KK

R7
10 K

Y1

C5
27

NC

13

11

12

D
9

C
10

E
8

F
7
2

QD

QC

SER
14

QA
15

A4
5

G
6
1
QB
VCC
16

A2
3

A3
4

NC
1

A1
2

Figure 7. Schematic Diagram of Easy 4-Digits 7 Segment LED Display

7.2 Mhz
C4
27

5
VCC

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GND
14

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PCB BOARD PRESENTATION

Figure 8. Easy 4-Digits 7 Segment LED Display

Silk Screen Layout

Figure 9. Figure 7. Easy 4-Digits 7 Segment LED Display

PCB Copper Pa"ern

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