VIPER Technical Manual

Detailed hardware description

 

 

Typically the power up sequence is as follows (please check the datasheet for the particular panel in use):

1Enable display VCC.

2Enable flat panel interface.

3Enable backlight.

Power down is in reverse order.

LCD backlight enable

The PXA255 GPIO9 pin controls the LCD inverter supply voltage for the backlight. When GPIO9 is set to logic ‘1’, the backlight supply BLKSAFE is supplied with 5V (turned on). The BLKEN signal on PL3 is the un-buffered GPIO9 signal. See the section PL3348H– LCD connector, page 88349H, for PL3 pin assignment, connector and mating connector details.

If you want to use a 12V backlight inverter, then the switched 5V supply on BLKSAFE or the control signal BLKEN can be used to control an external 12V supply to the inverter.

LCD logic supply enable

The PXA255 GPIO10 pin controls the supply voltage for the LCD logic. When GPIO10 is set to logic ‘1’, the LCD supply LCDSAFE is supplied with 3.3V (turned on). See the section PL3350H– LCD connector, page 88351H, for PL3 pin assignment, connector and mating connector details.

The LCD supply may be changed to 5V by moving the jumper position of JP2

(see section LCD55HSupply Voltage – LK8 on JP2, page 100352Hfor details). If the flat panel logic is powered from 5V, it must be compatible with 3.3V signalling. Please check the LCD panel datasheet for details.

LCD backlight brightness control

The control of the backlight brightness is dependant upon the type of backlight inverter used in the display. Some inverters have a ‘DIM’ function, which uses a logic level to choose between two levels of intensity. If this is the case then GPIO16 (Alternative Function 0) is used to set this. Other inverters have an input suitable for a pulse-width modulated signal; in this case GPIO16 should be configured as PWM0 (Alternative Function 2).

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