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    Default Nokia lcd include , small footprint to suit pic16's

    Entire demo is 872 words ,its less than 1/3 size of other attempts and has same features and a full alpha-numeric font
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    Default Re: Nokia lcd include , small footprint to suit pic16's

    Amazing work Richard.

    5*

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    Well done Richard, Ioannis almost got it right - put a star up against your name and let's call it 6*.

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    I agree... nicely done, Richard. I can't tell you how much I enjoy studying and learning from your code.

    I was inspired by how you compressed a 96 character 5x7 font table down to something like 288 words and I spent most of the day implementing something similar on an old 5110 demo program written in C for a 16F1823. With just basic INIT, CMD, DAT, and STR functions, the program now uses less than 500 words of program memory. I'm pretty geeked about it! Thank you...

    Take care. Have fun. Cheerful regards, Mike
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    if you really want to geek it up


    changing the output routine to use the mssp module shaves another 10% off the code size
    and speeds the thing up by a factor of 10x

    din and clk need to be on sdo and sck

    this

    PAUSEUS 150
    SHiftOUT LCD_DIN,LCD_CLK,1,[LcdData]

    becomes

    PIR1.3=0
    SSP1BUF = LcdData
    WHILE !PIR1.3 : wend


    and this is added to init routine

    SSP1CON1=$21 ;$22,21,20 all work @32mhz 20 is fastest
    SSP1STAT=$40
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    Yes, I already thought about using the SPI module. The current bit-bang driver uses 14 words of memory and runs at ~190-kb/s (with 8-MHz clock). An SPI driver and its init code shouldn't be any bigger. I hope to work on an SPI driver later today. I just need to refresh my memory on the SPI modes. Looks like you're using CKE = 1 and CKP = 0, yes?

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    Implementing the 'packed' font table and extracting data was surprisingly simple, though I'm coding pretty close to the metal and the results are nothing as agile or elegant as your use of the 'readcode' function. Here's an excerpt, if you're interested;

    Code:
      /********************************************************************
       *                                                                  *
       ********************************************************************/
       void RdFlash()               // bank 3 (inserted by compiler)
       { asm bcf     _eecon1,CFGS   // not 'config' memory            |03
         asm bsf     _eecon1,EEPGD  // select 'program' memory        |03
         asm bsf     _eecon1,RD     // initiate read operation        |03
         asm nop                    // required nop                   |03
         asm nop                    //  "                             |03
         asm incf    _eeadrl,F      // bump EEADR                     |03
         asm btfsc   _status,Z      //  "                             |03
         asm incf    _eeadrh,F      //  "                             |03
         asm rlf     _eedatl,W      // move b7 into Carry             |03
         asm rlf     _eedath,W      // wreg = the 7 bit hi byte       |03
         asm bcf     _eedatl,7      // eedatl = the 7 bit lo byte     |03
       }                            //
    
      /********************************************************************
       *                                                                  *
       ********************************************************************/
       void WrChar(char ascii)      // WrChar() for packed 5x7 font
       { asm movf    _ascii,W       // ascii char value, 32..127      |00
         asm addlw   -32            // minus table offset             |00
         asm movwf   _ascii         // font array index, 0..95        |00
     /*                                                                   *
      *  multiply index by 3 (0..95 -> 0..285), add table base address,   *
      *  and stuff the result in the EEADR register pair.                 *
      *                                                                   */
         asm lslf    _wreg,W        // wreg = (ascii-32)*2            |00
         asm addwf   _ascii,W       // wreg = (ascii-32)*3            |00
      // asm movlb   3              // bank 3 (inserted by compiler)  |03
         asm movwf   _eeadrl        // flash address lo               |03
         asm movlw   1024/256       // table address hi               |03
         asm btfsc   _status,C      // overflow? no, skip, else       |03
         asm addlw   1              // bump value                     |03
         asm movwf   _eeadrh        // flash address hi               |03
     /*                                                                   *
      *  read 3 words (6 bytes) of font pattern data from the 5x7 font    *
      *  array and write them to the Nokia 5110 LCD.                      *
      *                                                                   */
         for(char i=0; i<3; i++)    // 
         { RdFlash();               // read one word (2 bytes)
           putlcd(wreg);            // send hi byte
           putlcd(eedatl);          // send lo byte
         }                          //
       }                            //
    
      /********************************************************************
       *                                                                  *
       ********************************************************************/
       void WrChar(rom char *data)  // overload function for strings
       { char ndx = 0;              //
         while(data[ndx++])         // while not end-of-string
           WrChar(wreg);            //
       }                            //
    Code:
     /*                                                                   *
      *  initialize Nokia 5110 LCD display                                *
      *                                                                   */
         delay_ms(30);              //
         rst = 0;                   // 5110 'reset' pulse
         rst = 1;                   //
         dc = 0;                    // command mode
         putlcd(0x20+0x01);         // function set: extended instructions
         putlcd(0x80+0x30);         // set Vop (contrast), 0..127
         putlcd(0x04+0x02);         // set temperature coefficient, 0..3
         putlcd(0x10+0x03);         // Set bias system, 0..7
         putlcd(0x20+0x00);         // function set: standard instructions
         putlcd(0x08+0x04);         // display control: normal mode
    
         putlcd(0x80+0x20);         // set DDRAM X address, 0..83
         putlcd(0x40+0x02);         // set DDRAM Y address, 0..5
         dc = 1;                    // data mode
         WrChar("Hello");           // test string overload function
    Thank you again for sharing your work. Mike
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    Default Re: Nokia lcd include , small footprint to suit pic16's

    Hi Richard,

    Just taking a quick look at your Include demo and I can only write 13 characters per line successfully... if 14 then the result is a wrap around and overwriting of the first char. Example below:


    Code:
    looper:
        LCDCLR
    ;    LCDSTR  6,0,"-Nokia-Demo-"      ; Line 0, position 6. 
        LCDSTR  0,0,"I wonder what happens if the string is large?"  ; = Rubbish on first line and "missing quote" error message. 
    ;    LCDSTR  0,0,"I wonder what?"    ; = "? wonder what" [14 chars]
        LCDSTR  0,0,"I wonder what"     ; = "I wonder what" [13 chars only]
        LCDC   0,4,"'"                  ; Line 4, position 0.
        LCDC   25,5,"8"                ; Line 5, position 25.
        PAUSE 1000
        GOTO looper
    I'll test more later today and let you know if I find anything else needing a tweak. Again, great job.

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    Default Re: Nokia lcd include , small footprint to suit pic16's

    yes probably, but here is a new version with double size chr capability and mssp and font unpacking in asm [like in my ks0108 code]

    its not been texted on a pic18 , but its blisteringly fast on the 16f1847, and will fill screen fully

    thanks go to blll [wjsmarine] for donation of hardware for this project, enjoy
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    That's impressive, Richard.

    Can you explain how your font table works and how you derived those values in each column please? What limits the size of the table one can create?

    I'd like to learn from it and maybe if I can get my head around the process find a way to smooth out the double size characters (particularly 0-9, the degree symbol and C) - I'm guessing you are working your magic to achieve double size by math so it probably means making a larger table to accommodate these.

    An indication of smooth characters is shown in the pic attached, made with the previous lookup table style, which consumed 4 normal sized chars' area per big one and 2 lines (as does yours) and also noting the degree C was formed as one big character. Apologies for the blurry image, not helped with the scratchy plastic over the LCD to protect the glass...

    Thanks for your patience and help.

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    Default Re: Nokia lcd include , small footprint to suit pic16's

    some 8x8 graphpaper
    AND an old spread sheet that did the number crunching
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    I used a spreadsheet to convert my old 5 byte per character tables, too. Works a treat...

    Cheerful regards, Mike

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    I came up with the same solution , the freely available font creators [like the mikronta one] don't really
    convert the font to the most efficient format for pic's when codespace is an issue.
    although they can be a good starting point
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    Nice job on the spreadsheet, Richard. I just finished modifying mine to format the packed font table output for either C or asm. Here's a sample;

    Code:
    	0x0000,	0x0000,	0x0000,	//  32	 ' '
    	0x0000,	0x2F80,	0x0000,	//  33	 '!'
    	0x0007,	0x0007,	0x0000,	//  34	 '"'
    	0x0A7F,	0x0A7F,	0x0A00,	//  35	 '#'
    	0x122A,	0x3FAA,	0x0900,	//  36	 '$'
    	0x1193,	0x0464,	0x3100,	//  37	 '%'
    	0x1B49,	0x2AA2,	0x2800,	//  38	 '&'
    	0x0005,	0x0180,	0x0000,	//  39	 '''
    	0x001C,	0x1141,	0x0000,	//  40	 '('
    	0x0041,	0x111C,	0x0000,	//  41	 ')'
    	0x0A08,	0x1F08,	0x0A00,	//  42	 '*'
    	0x0408,	0x1F08,	0x0400,	//  43	 '+'
    Code:
         dw	0x0000,	0x0000,	0x0000	;  32	 ' '
         dw	0x0000,	0x2F80,	0x0000	;  33	 '!'
         dw	0x0007,	0x0007,	0x0000	;  34	 '"'
         dw	0x0A7F,	0x0A7F,	0x0A00	;  35	 '#'
         dw	0x122A,	0x3FAA,	0x0900	;  36	 '$'
         dw	0x1193,	0x0464,	0x3100	;  37	 '%'
         dw	0x1B49,	0x2AA2,	0x2800	;  38	 '&'
         dw	0x0005,	0x0180,	0x0000	;  39	 '''
         dw	0x001C,	0x1141,	0x0000	;  40	 '('
         dw	0x0041,	0x111C,	0x0000	;  41	 ')'
         dw	0x0A08,	0x1F08,	0x0A00	;  42	 '*'
         dw	0x0408,	0x1F08,	0x0400	;  43	 '+'
    I also decided to render all 96 characters directly from the input table so that I can see at-a-glance which characters might need tweaking...

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    Just finished the font render part of my spreadsheet. It renders directly from the unpacked 5-byte 'input' table. Change a byte in there and you'll see the changes immediately. Mind if I show it off, guys (see below)?

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    Richard... Would you be interested in seeing my driver code for font tables with 2.5 word-per-character packing instead of 3 word-per-character packing? The new '2.5' font tables use 240 words of memory (down from 288 words) and my little single file ~225 line (non-PBP) demo program now weighs in at ~406 words total memory...

    Cheerful regards, Mike
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    Default Re: Nokia lcd include , small footprint to suit pic16's

    Richard... Would you be interested in seeing my driver code for font tables
    yes please, I had considered doing that but could not find a method that preserved the gain
    my attempts used half the saved space up doing the unpacking
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