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Scope and purpose​

The Segment LCD Configurator is used to generate display structures for the Segment LCD Driver.

Intended audience​

This document helps application developers understand how to use the Segment LCD Configurator as part of creating a ModusToolbox™ application.

Document conventions​

Convention

Explanation

Bold

Emphasizes heading levels, column headings, menus and sub-menus

Italics

Denotes file names and paths.

Monospace

Denotes APIs, functions, interrupt handlers, events, data types, error handlers, file/folder names, directories, command line inputs, code snippets

File > New

Indicates that a cascading sub-menu opens when you select a menu item

Abbreviations and definitions​

The following define the abbreviations and terms used in this document:

  • Application – One or more projects related to each other

  • Configurator – A GUI-based tool used to configure a resource

  • LCD – liquid crystal display

  • Glass – An LCD glass with one or more displays (for example, one 7-segment display and one bar-graph display).

  • Display – A block of symbols that have the same type on an LCD glass to indicate a multi-digital number or character string

  • Symbol – A block of pixels on an LCD glass to indicate a single digit or character.

  • Pixel – A basic displaying item; can be a segment of a 7-segment symbol (thus called a "segment"), a pixel of a dot-matrix display, or a stand-alone arbitrarily-shaped display element; each pixel has a unique set of common and segment lines within one LCD glass.

  • Common line (Com/COM for short) – A common wire/signal from the PSoC™ MCU to the LCD glass. In the Segment LCD Configurator, this is represented as a column in the

    Mapping table

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  • Segment line (Seg/SEG for short) – A segment wire/signal from the PSoC™ MCU to the LCD glass represented as a row in the

    Mapping table

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Reference documents​

Refer to the following documents for more information as needed: