Proceedings Article | 8 September 2011
KEYWORDS: LED displays, Light emitting diodes, Field programmable gate arrays, RGB color model, Image processing, Control systems, Image display, Logic, Data processing, Microelectronics
With quickly advance of the computer, microelectronics and photonics technologies, LED display panel becomes a new
electronic advertising media. It can be used to show any information whatever characters or graphics. Most LED display
panels are built of many Light-Emitting Diodes arranged in a matrix form. The display has many advantages such as low
power, low cost, long life and high definition. Because the display panel is asked to show rich color, the LED display
panel's driving system becomes very complex. The design methodology of LED display panel's driver becomes more
and more important to meet the market requirements.
Cost is always the most important issue in public market domain. In this paper, we report a design methodology of LED
display panel's driver based on the microprocessor control unit (MCU) system and LED display controller IC, HT1632C,
to control three colors, RGB, color LED display panel and the modular panel size is 24*16 in matrix form. The
HT1632C is a memory mapping LED display controller, it can be used on many applications, such as digital clock,
thermometer, counter, voltmeter or other instrumentation readouts. Three pieces of HT1632C are used to drive a 24*16
RGB LED display panel, in our design case. Each HT163C chip is used to control one of the R, G and B color. As the
drive mode is driven in DC mode, the RGB display panel can create and totally of seven colors under the control of
MCU. The MCU generates the control signal to drive HT1632C. In this study, the software design methodology is
adopted with dynamic display principle. When the scan frequency is 60Hz, LED display panel will get the clear picture
and be able to display seven colors.
