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Time Narration
00:01 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Interfacing LCD through AVR-GCC programming.
00:09 In this tutorial, we will learn to:

interface a LCD to Arduino board,

write an AVR-GCC program to display a digit on LCD.

00:22 To follow this tutorial, you should have basic knowledge of :

electronics,

C Programming and

AVR-GCC.

00:34 To record this tutorial, I am using:

Arduino UNO Board,

Ubuntu Linux operating system version 14.04.

00:47 We also require some external devices such as:

Breadboard,

LCD 16 by 2,

Arduino UNO Board,

01:00 Potentiometer,

Jumper Wires and

Pin headers.

01:07 In this experiment, we will be using a 16 by 2 LCD.

Please refer to the basic level tutorials of this series to know more about LCD.

01:20 Make use of the given table to connect the Arduino pins to the LCD.
01:26 This table is available in the Additional reading material link of this tutorial.
01:32 This is the circuit connection.
01:35 Connect one extreme lead of the potentiometer to pin 1 of the LCD.
01:42 The other extreme end is connected to pin 2 of the LCD.

The middle pin is connected to pin 3 of the LCD.

01:53 This is the live setup of the connection.
01:58 Now, we will write an AVR-GCC program to display the digit 5 on the LCD.
02:05 Open any text editor and type the following.
02:09 avr/io.h contains all the basic libraries required to perform the input and output operations.
02:19 Util slash delay.h contains the libraries for the delay function.
02:26 stdlib.h contains the libraries for defining variable types and other commonly used functions.
02:36 ClearBit(x comma y) is equivalent to cbi(x comma y). This is used to clear the yth bit of PORTx.
02:47 SetBit(x comma y) is equivalent to sbi(x comma y). This is used to set the yth bit of PORTx.
02:58 All the numerical pins of the LCD are replaced with the names using hash define.
03:05 This is done to make the program easier to understand.
03:10 The PulseEnableLine function is used to toggle the enable pin of the LCD.
03:17 SetBit will set to high and Clearbit will set to low, with a delay in between.
03:25 The SendNibble function is used to send data of one nibble to the PORTB.
03:33 The SendByte function is used to send data of one byte to the PORTB.
03:40 The LCD underscore Cmd function is used to send a command to the LCD.
03:47 The LCD underscore Char function is used to send a character data to the LCD.
03:55 The LCD underscore Init function is used to initialize the LCD.
04:02 The LCD underscore Clear function is used to clear the display.
04:09 The LCD underscore Message function is used to send a string of data to be displayed on the LCD.
04:18 The LCD underscore Integer function is used to send an integer data to the LCD.
04:27 This is the main function where we pass the value 5 to the display.
04:33 This code is available in the Code files link of this tutorial. You can download and use it.
04:41 I’ll save the code as lcd.c file in the Downloads folder.

Ensure that the Makefile is also present in the same folder.

04:53 Switch to the terminal.
04:56 Go to the folder where lcd.c file is saved.

Type: make space FNAME in capital = lcd and press Enter.

05:12 This command creates a .hex file and uploads it to Arduino.
05:18 Now, you can see that the digit 5 is displayed on the LCD.
05:25 This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.
05:31 In this tutorial, we learnt to:

interface a LCD to Arduino board and

write an AVR-GCC program to display a digit on LCD.

05:43 As an assignment-

Modify the above code to display any other digit from 0-9.

Modify the above code to build a counter which counts from 0 to 9.

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06:29 This tutorial has been contributed by FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.

This is Priya from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for watching.

Contributors and Content Editors

Pratik kamble, Sandhya.np14