
2–8
SCD5580/5581/5582/5583/5584
The user can activate four Control functions. These include:
LED Brightness Level, Lamp Test, IC Power Down, or Display
Clear. OPCODEs and ve bit words are used to initiate these
functions. The OPCODEs and Control Words for the Charac-
ter Address and Loading Column Data are shown in Tables 2
and 3.
Table 2. Load character address
Table 3. Load column data
Figure 10. Row and column location
Opcode
Character Address
Operation
Load
D7
D6
D5
D4
D3
D2
D1
D0
10100000A0
Character 0
10100001A1
Character 1
10100010A2
Character 2
10100011A3
Character 3
10100100A4
Character 4
10100101A5
Character 5
10100110A6
Character 6
10100111A7
Character 7
Opcode
Column Data
Operation Load
D7
D6
D5
D4
D3
D2
D1
D0
000C0
C1
C2
C3
C4
Row 0
001C0
C1
C2
C3
C4
Row 1
010C0
C1
C2
C3
C4
Row 2
011C0
C1
C2
C3
C4
Row 3
100C0
C1
C2
C3
C4
Row 4
off LED
on LED
Row 0
Row 1
Row 2
Row 3
Row 4
0 1 2 3 4
Columns
Previously “on” LED
The user can select seven specic LED brightness levels,
Table 4. These brightness levels (in percentages of full bright-
ness of the display) include: 100% (F0HEX), 53% (F1HEX),
40% (F2HEX ), 27% (F3HEX ), 20% (F4HEX ), 13% (F5HEX), and
6.6% (F6HEX ). The brightness levels are controlled by chang-
ing the duty factor of the row strobe pulse.
Table 4. Display brightness
The SCD558X offers a unique Display Power Down feature
which reduces ICC to less than 50 A. When FFHEX is loaded,
as shown in Table 5, the display is set to 0% brightness and
the internal multiplex clock is stopped. When in the Power
Down mode data may still be written into the RAM. The dis-
play is reactivated by loading a new Brightness Level Control
Word into the display.
Table 5. Power down
The Lamp Test is enabled by loading F8HEX, Table 6, into the
serial shift register. This Control Word sets all of the LEDs to a
53% brightness level. Operation of the Lamp Test has no
affect on the RAM and is cleared by loading a Brightness
Control Word.
Opcode
Control Word
Hex
Operation
Level
D7
D6
D5
D4
D3
D2
D1
D0
11110000F0
100%
11110001F1
53%
11110010F2
40%
11110011F3
27%
11110100A4
20%
11110101F5
13%
11110110F6
6.6%
Opcode
Control Word
Hex Operation
D7
D6
D5
D4
D3
D2
D1
D0
11111111FF
0%
brightness
Figure 11. Row strobing
Row 0
Row 1
Row 2
Row 3
Row 4
0 1 2 3 4
Columns
Row 0
Row 1
Row 2
Row 3
Row 4
0 1 2 3 4
Columns
Row 0
Row 1
Row 2
Row 3
Row 4
0 1 2 3 4
Columns
Row 0
Row 1
Row 2
Row 3
Row 4
0 1 2 3 4
Columns
Row 0
Row 1
Row 2
Row 3
Row 4
0 1 2 3 4
Columns
ROW LOAD
LOAD ROW 0
LOAD ROW 1
LOAD ROW 2
LOAD ROW 3
LOAD ROW 4