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Replacing an old Lightlink/Inova FPGA Scrolling LED board controller with PIC24F + ESP8266

yadid-ramotYadid Ramot 11/08/2015 at 20:380 Comments

Each display has an array of 16x3 and 20x2 boards, each board contains an array of 10 x (4x8) RGY LED blocks

Boards are serially linked to each other in each row

Each row is connected to the board using a 10 bit ribbon

The ribbons are connected from the main board to a OCT buffer (HCT244) and a shift register

After some poking around, i found the following lines -

RCK (Pin 10)Green Bit
Row ID (3)SRCK
Row ID (1)Row ID (2)
SRCK5v+
Red BitGND (Pin 1)

RCK - Shift Register RCK

Green Bit - Shift HIGH to light up Green pixel

Row ID (1-3) - a 3 bit number for the following rows - (ID 1,2,3)

Row 1 - 000Row 2 - 001
Row 3 - 010 Row 4 - 011
Row 5 - 100Row 6 - 101
Row 7 - 110Row 8 - 111

SRCK - Shift Register SRCK

5v+ - positivie

Red Bit - Shift HIGH to light up Red pixel

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