
UM10237_2
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User manual
Rev. 02 — 19 December 2008
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NXP Semiconductors
UM10237
Chapter 12: LPC24XX LCD controller
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256 entry, 16-bit palette RAM, arranged as a 128x32-bit RAM.
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Frame, line, and pixel clock signals.
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AC bias signal for STN, data enable signal for TFT panels.
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Supports little and big-endian, and Windows CE data formats.
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LCD panel clock may be generated from the peripheral clock, or from a clock input
pin.
4.1 Programmable parameters
The following key display and controller parameters can be programmed:
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Horizontal front and back porch
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Horizontal synchronization pulse width
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Number of pixels per line
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Vertical front and back porch
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Vertical synchronization pulse width
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Number of lines per panel
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Number of pixel clocks per line
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Hardware cursor control.
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Signal polarity, active HIGH or LOW
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AC panel bias
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Panel clock frequency
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Bits-per-pixel
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Display type: STN monochrome, STN color, or TFT
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STN 4 or 8-bit interface mode
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STN dual or single panel mode
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Little-endian, big-endian, or Windows CE mode
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Interrupt generation event
4.2 Hardware cursor support
The hardware cursor feature reduces software overhead associated with maintaining a
cursor image in the LCD frame buffer.
Without this feature, software needed to:
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Save an image of the area under the next cursor position.
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Update the area with the cursor image.
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Repair the last cursor position with a previously saved image.
In addition, the LCD driver had to check whether the graphics operation had overwritten
the cursor, and correct it. With a cursor size of 64x64 and 24-bit color, each cursor move
involved reading and writing approximately 75KB of data.