P000001 – Serial Interface LCD character display screen

Introduction

This project is a relatively simple one. RS-232 data is received from a PC serial port and displayed on a 20 character by 2 line LCD display. A return carriage begins displaying characters on a new line of the display.

Schematic

· PDF printout of the electrical schematic.

PCB

· PDF printout of the TOP layer PCB tracks,

· PDF printout of the BOTTOM layer PCB tracks.

Firmware

This project has only one microcontroller, the PIC 18F4550. The following hex file can be loaded into this Microchip device or alternatively you can download the entire project source code and compile it yourself in MPLAB for any Microchip device.

· SerialLCD.hex

· SerialLCDProject.zip

Software

No special software is required for this project. Any serial communications software will do the job. One suitable example is PuTTY.

Documentation

This project contains three basic sets of documentation, they are as follows

· SDD.pdf – System Design Description, this document outlining the aims of this project,

· HDD.pdf – Hardware Design Description, this document outlines the specific hardware implementations performed in this project.

Author

Christopher Glanville – [email protected]

Date Last Updated

17/4/2011

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