SPMA082 August   2021 TM4C1230C3PM , TM4C1230D5PM , TM4C1230E6PM , TM4C1230H6PM , TM4C1231C3PM , TM4C1231D5PM , TM4C1231D5PZ , TM4C1231E6PM , TM4C1231E6PZ , TM4C1231H6PGE , TM4C1231H6PM , TM4C1231H6PZ , TM4C1232C3PM , TM4C1232D5PM , TM4C1232E6PM , TM4C1232H6PM , TM4C1233C3PM , TM4C1233D5PM , TM4C1233D5PZ , TM4C1233E6PM , TM4C1233E6PZ , TM4C1233H6PGE , TM4C1233H6PM , TM4C1233H6PZ , TM4C1236D5PM , TM4C1236E6PM , TM4C1236H6PM , TM4C1237D5PM , TM4C1237D5PZ , TM4C1237E6PM , TM4C1237E6PZ , TM4C1237H6PGE , TM4C1237H6PM , TM4C1237H6PZ , TM4C123AE6PM , TM4C123AH6PM , TM4C123BE6PM , TM4C123BE6PZ , TM4C123BH6PGE , TM4C123BH6PM , TM4C123BH6PZ , TM4C123FE6PM , TM4C123FH6PM , TM4C123GE6PM , TM4C123GE6PZ , TM4C123GH6PGE , TM4C123GH6PM , TM4C123GH6PZ , TM4C1290NCPDT , TM4C1290NCZAD , TM4C1292NCPDT , TM4C1292NCZAD , TM4C1294KCPDT , TM4C1294NCPDT , TM4C1294NCZAD , TM4C1297NCZAD , TM4C1299KCZAD , TM4C1299NCZAD , TM4C129CNCPDT , TM4C129CNCZAD , TM4C129DNCPDT , TM4C129DNCZAD , TM4C129EKCPDT , TM4C129ENCPDT , TM4C129ENCZAD , TM4C129LNCZAD , TM4C129XKCZAD , TM4C129XNCZAD

 

  1.   Trademarks
  2. 1TFT LCD Overview
    1. 1.1 Typical Interfaces
    2. 1.2 Frame Buffer
      1. 1.2.1 Frame Buffer Size Calculation
    3. 1.3 Frame Rate (FPS)
    4. 1.4 Touch Display
  3. 2LCD Controller Overview
    1. 2.1 Block Diagram
      1. 2.1.1 Raster Controller
      2. 2.1.2 LIDD Controller
  4. 3TivaWare Graphics Library (grlib)
    1. 3.1 Graphics Library Structure
      1. 3.1.1 Display Driver Overview
      2. 3.1.2 Low-Level Primitive Graphics API Overview
      3. 3.1.3 Widget API Overview
      4. 3.1.4 Input Driver Overview
  5. 4Display Driver Adaptation
    1. 4.1 Off-Screen Display Drivers
    2. 4.2 Individual Display Driver Functions
      1. 4.2.1 Init
      2. 4.2.2 ColorTranslate
      3. 4.2.3 PixelDraw
      4. 4.2.4 PixelDrawMultiple
      5. 4.2.5 LineDrawH
      6. 4.2.6 LineDrawV
      7. 4.2.7 RectFill
      8. 4.2.8 Flush
  6. 5Fonts
    1. 5.1 Creating Custom Fonts for Different Languages
  7. 6Useful Utilities
    1. 6.1 Pnmtoc
    2. 6.2 mkstringtable and ftrasterize
  8. 7References
  9.   A Appendix A

2 LCD Controller Overview

The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Controller on TM4C MCUs provides support for a variety of LCD and OLED panels.

  • Character-based panels:
    • Support for two character panels (CS0 and CS1) with independent and programmable bus timing parameters when in asynchronous Hitachi, Motorola and Intel modes.
    • Support for one character panel (CS0) with programmable bus timing parameters when in synchronous Motorola and Intel modes.
    • Can be used as a generic 16-bit address/data interleaved MPU bus master with no external stall.
  • Passive matrix LCD panels:
    • Panel types including STN, DSTN, and C-DSTN
    • AC Bias Control
  • Active matrix LCD panels:
    • Panel types including TN TFT
    • 1, 2, 4 or 8 bits per pixel with palette RAM and 16 or 24 bits per pixel without palette RAM
  • OLED panels:
    • Passive Matrix (PM OLED) with frame buffer and controller IC side the panel
    • Active Matrix (AM OLED)
  • Bus mastering capability from either SRAM or EPI memory
Note: While the LCD controller is capable of supporting a variety of display panels, this application report focuses on the support for the more popular active matrix LCD panels such as the TFT display panels.