hexa bus to decimal 7 segments - VHDL...

[PC]

Please, anybody have some example to drive 3 displays 7 segments in decimal
valur
with bus of 8 bits in binarie value ...

by example :
if my bus is xFF, i want display 255 with my three digits ...

thank's for any help
Phil

 

[Jason Berringer]

I had a similar problem a while back and Peter Alfke replied with this bit
of information (listed below). It worked great. Also Xilinx has a binary to
bcd example on their website.

Hope this helps

Here is a time-proven hardware design for bit-serial binary to parallel
BCD conversion. (I published this in 1973 in the Fairchild TTL
Applications Handbook).

Implement a bunch of 4-bit loadable shift register, but do not
interconnect them.
For each shift register drive a 4-bit adder (without carry in, but with
carry output) from the 4 shift register outputs. Put a binary eleven (B)
as other input on the adder.
Connect the adder outputs to the shift register load inputs, but skewed
one position downstream ( bit 0 of the adder drives bit 1 of the shift
register ).
Then use the carry output as load enable for "its" shift register, and
also as input for the LSB of the downstream shift register ( both as
shift- and as load- input)
The S3 output ( most significant sum) goes nowhere. That's it.

Shifting in binary data (MSB first) doubles the binary value on every
shift. The adder monitors this and, on its carry output, signals that
there is a value 5 or larger, which needs intervention: add 3 before the
next shift ( which is equivalent to adding 6 after having shifted it)
and load a carry into the next higher bit position.
The neat trick is that the 4-bit adder simultaneously adds eleven to
create a carry that detects the need for modification, and also adds
three to do the modification.

Shift in binary data, MSB first, and watch the BCD develop on the
parallel shift register outputs. Note that BCD needs more bit positions
than binary, so leave some headroom.
Works like a champ, flawlessly since 30 years ago.

Peter Alfke, no longer at Fairchild (but it was an interesting 10 years)
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Please, anybody have some example to drive 3 displays 7 segments in
decimal
valur
with bus of 8 bits in binarie value ...

by example :
if my bus is xFF, i want display 255 with my three digits ...

thank's for any help
Phil

 

[Marc Guardiani]

Jason,

This is a whole lot smaller than the pyramid of binary to BCD converters
that I remember seeing in my TTL application books. Great algorithm! I
tried this out as a schematic in Quartus and it worked like a champ. I
am definitely adding this to my bag'o'tricks.

Marc

Jason Berringer wrote:

Here is a time-proven hardware design for bit-serial binary to parallel
BCD conversion. (I published this in 1973 in the Fairchild TTL
Applications Handbook).