Wednesday, November 16, 2011

PS Cockpit System - How to use LCD Display

PS Cockpit System PCB is able to drive up to 2 LCD graphic display modules based on the KS0108 driver. You can connect the modules to the Main PCB of the system:

The connectors pin diagram is the following:



Look closely to your LCD datasheet to find the corresponding pin-out.

I have used a Displaytech 64128C LCD graphic module with the following pin-out:


This LCD Display is a little tricky as it needs a negative supply voltage for the LCD on Vo. I turned around by using a PC power supply which gives us a source of -5VDC.

Once the LCD module has been connected the PS Cockpit System at start up will display the PS logo and when you run the PS Cockpit software the DED info will appear on the LCD.

If you only have one LCD module the PS Cockpit System can also display the PFL info in it. To do this, you have to go to the F16 model and select Special I/Os page. In the “Show DED/PFL” select the desire input from the expander (i.e. F-ACK pushbutton on the left eyebrow). Now whenever you push the pushbutton the display will show you the first screen of the PFL. Keep pushing this pushbutton to go through all the pages of the PFL. Once all the pages of the PFL have been showed the display will show the DED screen again.


Here is a video of how the Displaytech display is working as the F-16 DED with the Falcon AF sim:

Regards,
Shep

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