P10 LED Display Panel Interface with AVR ATmega8

Making LED displays and signage is a complete industry in itself serving all sorts of clients like banks, railway stations, factories, airport and more. In earlier days display units were made using individual LEDs carefully placed and soldered to make matrix of display. But this task was very mundane and slight misplacement of LED gave a ugly look to the board and chances of failure were also high. But now a days ready made panels are available that has 512 LEDs arranged in a rectangle of 32×16 matrix. They are low cost and easily available. Thanks to such LED panels making LED displays are now lot easier. Below I am introducing such a LED display panel.

P10 LED Panel 32×16 Matrix

PIN Description of P10 LED Display

This LED display module has a 16 pin FRC box header for interface. Pin configuration is shown below.
P10 LED Display Pin configuration
As you can see most of the pins are ground. And that should really make you happy that this display is so simple!

  • EN (Enable) is used for PWM brightness control of the entire panel. That means the MCU can control the brightness by feeding a pulse width modulated signal on this pin.
  • A & B are the multiplex select pins. They take binary input to select any one of the four multiplex rows.
  • Shift clock, Store clock and Data are the normal shift register control pins. The shift register IC used is IC74HC595

Connection with ATmega8

We have chosen a basic AVR ATmega8 development board to do this experiment. AVR development board has all i/o pins of microcontroller available in male headers making it very easy to hook up p10 led panel to it using female to female wire.

P10 Display Dev Board
GND GND
EN PB0
A PD6
B PD7
Shift Clock PD4
Store Clock PD5
Data PD3

I have highlighted the pins used to interface in the image below so that you do not have trouble locating them.
for more detail: P10 LED Display Panel Interface with AVR ATmega8


About The Author

Ibrar Ayyub

I am an experienced technical writer with a Master's degree in computer science from BZU Multan University. I have written for various industries, mainly home automation and engineering. My writing style is clear and simple, and I am skilled in using infographics and diagrams. I am a great researcher and am able to present information in a well-organized and logical manner.

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