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Board Design - Display Board

A project log for Number Matrix

A matrix built from sixteen boards each containing eight - four character seven segment displays for a total of 4096 individual segments.

seasleyeceseasleyece 05/24/2021 at 22:560 Comments

To control the metric buttload of individual segments I decided to use the Pi PICO as it seamed to have the grunt needed to get the job done.  There is an FPGA between the PICO and the display matrix. The FPGA performs the mapping between a 2 dimensional array and the 7 segment digits.  More to come on the FPGA internals.

Major components in the design:

Pretty proud of how the layout turned out.  Love working with FPGAs as the the pinout is almost infinitely adjustable.

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