Its a digial clock which make use of AT89C4051 to work as a Real time clock.
In figure 3 as you can see the digits are bigger than the normal size. For this purpose i’m maiking use of the CGRAM of the LCD, which gives the flexibility to the user to define user defined characters. so to create a character we first need to get the values which are to be written into the CGRAM area. The CGRAM area starts from address 0x40 and for every character there are 8 locations which are to be written. Figure 2 shows the custom character creation.
so when we get the values for all the pixels. we write these values to the CGRAM. the Digit 0 – 9 can be created with the help of eight such custom characters.
NOTE: You can only create upto 8 custom characters.
The source code for the project is written in C-language, and compiled using Keil C compiler, you can download the c-code, schematic, and if you don’t have a cross compiler then you can directly burn the HEX file on to your chip clockV1.1
