LPC2478 NXP Semiconductors, LPC2478 Datasheet - Page 35

• Manufacturer Part Number: LPC2478
• Description: NXP Semiconductors designed the LPC2478 microcontroller, powered by theARM7TDMI-S core, to be a highly integrated microcontroller for a wide range ofapplications that require advanced communications and high quality graphic displays
• Manufacturer: NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors
LPC2478
Product data sheet
7.10.1 Features
7.10 LCD controller
7.11 Ethernet
The LCD controller provides all of the necessary control signals to interface directly to a
variety of color and monochrome LCD panels. Both STN (single and dual panel) and TFT
panels can be operated. The display resolution is selectable and can be up to 1024  768
pixels. Several color modes are provided, up to a 24-bit true-color non-palettized mode.
An on-chip 512-byte color palette allows reducing bus utilization (i.e. memory size of the
displayed data) while still supporting a large number of colors.
The LCD interface includes its own DMA controller to allow it to operate independently of
the CPU and other system functions. A built-in FIFO acts as a buffer for display data,
providing flexibility for system timing. Hardware cursor support can further reduce the
amount of CPU time needed to operate the display.
The Ethernet block contains a full featured 10 Mbit/s or 100 Mbit/s Ethernet MAC
designed to provide optimized performance through the use of DMA hardware
acceleration. Features include a generous suite of control registers, half or full duplex
operation, flow control, control frames, hardware acceleration for transmit retry, receive
packet filtering and wake-up on LAN activity. Automatic frame transmission and reception
with scatter-gather DMA off-loads many operations from the CPU.
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AHB master interface to access frame buffer.
Setup and control via a separate AHB slave interface.
Dual 16-deep programmable 64-bit wide FIFOs for buffering incoming display data.
Supports single and dual-panel monochrome Super Twisted Nematic (STN) displays
with 4-bit or 8-bit interfaces.
Supports single and dual-panel color STN displays.
Supports Thin Film Transistor (TFT) color displays.
Programmable display resolution including, but not limited to: 320  200, 320  240,
640  200, 640  240, 640  480, 800  600, and 1024  768.
Hardware cursor support for single-panel displays.
15 gray-level monochrome, 3375 color STN, and 32 K color palettized TFT support.
1, 2, or 4 bits-per-pixel (bpp) palettized displays for monochrome STN.
1, 2, 4, or 8 bpp palettized color displays for color STN and TFT.
16 bpp true-color non-palettized, for color STN and TFT.
24 bpp true-color non-palettized, for color TFT.
Programmable timing for different display panels.
256 entry, 16-bit palette RAM, arranged as a 128  32-bit RAM.
Frame, line, and pixel clock signals.
AC bias signal for STN, data enable signal for TFT panels.
Supports little and big-endian, and Windows CE data formats.
LCD panel clock may be generated from the peripheral clock, or from a clock input
pin.
All information provided in this document is subject to legal disclaimers.
Rev. 3 — 12 September 2011
Single-chip 16-bit/32-bit microcontroller
LPC2478
© NXP B.V. 2011. All rights reserved.
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