Multiplexed Seven Segment Displays – Part II

• In last tutorial we discussed about Multiplexing Seven

Segment Displays. So you must be very much familier
with the therory. Now let us write the code and design a
small project that will make you expert in using these
displays in your own projects. We will make a system
that can display any number between 0-999 using three
of these displays. We will write a function Print() that we
can use on own later projects to easily write integers
onto displays. Once we have successfully tested this
function we can add to to any project without any
problem. This concept of code reuse will make bigger
project both easy to make and far less painfull. In this
sample project we will test our function by using it in a
loop to print all numbers from 0-999.
for(i=0;i<1000;i++)
{
Print(i);
Wait();
}

Multiplexed Seven Segment Displays.

 The Circuit Diagram.
• You can use a Home Made AVR Devboard or a low cost xBoard MINI to experiment with
seven segment displays. In the picture I have used xBoard MINI. The project is designed with
ATmega8 but can easily be done through ATmega16 or ATmega32. The crystal value is not so
critical for this you can use 12 MHz or 16 MHz it would only change the refresh rate of
displays.
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