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The Microcontroller Idea Book - Jan Axelson's Lakeview Research

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Displays<br />

Figure 8-2. Ways to connect bicolor LEDs .<br />

7-segment Displays<br />

If you want to display numbers, 7-segment displays will do the job. Each digit on the display<br />

contains seven segments. Numerals are displayed by turning on different combinations of<br />

segments, as Figure 8-3 shows. Decoder chips make it easy to operate one or more displays<br />

with a minimum of programming and added components. Seven-segment displays are<br />

available as LEDs, where each segment is a light-emitting diode, and as LCDs, where each<br />

segment is a liquid-crystal display. We’ll look at the LED type first.<br />

7-segment LEDs<br />

A 7-segment LED contains seven individual LEDs arranged in the pattern shown in Figure<br />

8-3. Sometimes there is also a decimal point (or two, one on each side). <strong>The</strong>re are also special<br />

leading-digit modules that display only a 1 and a plus-or-minus symbol.<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Microcontroller</strong> <strong>Idea</strong> <strong>Book</strong> 129

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