Beagle Bone Black and 18 bit RGB LCD

gismy sunish

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Im designing a board with Beagle Bone Black and 18 Bit RGB LCD. Is there any problem if i connect the 18 LCD data lines from connector P9 to LCD.

over 10 years ago

0 Biser Gatchev-XID over 10 years ago

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No, these are the correct lines, only it's connector P8 on the BB Black, not P9.

0 gismy sunish over 10 years ago in reply to Biser Gatchev-XID

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Thank you sir.

but im using 18 bit RGB TFT LCD module and as per AM335x ARM® Cortex™-A8 Microprocessors (MPUs) Technical Reference Manual, for active TFT mode either LCD_DATA[15:0] or LCD_DATA[15:0] is suggested. So can I go for LCD_DATA[17:0] or 18bpp mode for my TFT LCD

0 Biser Gatchev-XID over 10 years ago in reply to gismy sunish

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Yes you can. You have to configure software for RGB-888 (24-bit), but you can pinmux only the highest 6 bits of each color as LCD data pins. I forgot to tell you - take a look at Errata section 3.1.1 for the color assignments for each pin in RGB-888 mode.

0 gismy sunish over 10 years ago in reply to Biser Gatchev-XID

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I've made changes based on your suggestions.Please verify the attached design

regards

gismy

0 Biser Gatchev-XID over 10 years ago in reply to gismy sunish

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Hi Gismy,

Seems fine to me.

0 Florian Lebrun over 8 years ago in reply to Biser Gatchev-XID

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Hi ,

Thanks a lot for this subject. i also need the same thing for my screen. I wanted to use a hdmi / 40 pin RGB controller based on tfp401 + ar1100 TSC but by seeing this post, may be i will design my own beaglebone black cape and use integrated TCS and LCD controller ...

1) But is it using PRU ?
2) does it take a lot of ressource if i do a lot of thing around ?

Thank you

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Beagle Bone Black and 18 bit RGB LCD