Library 18- ILI9341 with LTDC on STM32F429 Discovery

It’s been a while when I first got ILI9341 lcd working on discovery, but without LTDC driver. Yesterday I decided to make a new library. With LTDC, you can actually display movies, because it uses parallel communication and support 2 layers simultaneously what gives you a high refresh rate.

I used my old ILI9341 library and just add/modify some things to get LTDC to work.

LTDC also supports 2 layers, so this means that while one layer is displayed, other layer can be filled with data.

Note: This library only works on STM32F429 Discovery, it’s not for STM32F4 Discovery.

ILI9341 connected with STM32F429 for LTDC
ILI9341 DISCOVERY DESCRIPTION
B5 PA3 Blue 5
VSYNC PA4 VYSNC
G2 PA6 Green 2
R4 PA11 Red 4
R5 PA12 Red 5
R3 PB0 Red 3
R6 PB1 Red 6
B6 PB8 Blue 6
B7 PB9 Blue 7
G4 PB10 Green 4
G5 PB11 Green 5
HSYNC PC6 HSYNC
G6 PC7 Green 6
R2 PC10 Red 2
G7 PD3 Green 7
B2 PD6 Blue 2
E PF10 Enable
R7 PG6 Red 7
DOTCLK PG7 Dot clock
G3 PG10 Green 3
B3 PG11 Blue 3
B4 PG12 Blue 4
MOSI PF9 SPI5 MOSI pin
MISO PF8 SPI5 MISO pin
SCK PF7 SPI5 SCK pin
CS PC2 CS pin for SPI5
RESET Reset pin
WRX PD13 Data/Command selection

Library

Features

  • Supports LTDC peripheral on STM32F429 Discovery
  • Supports fonts
  • Uses SDRAM on STM32F429 Discovery board
  • Rotation to all 4 directions
  • 2 layers support
  • Supported layer opacity
  • High speed refresh rate
  • Graphic support
  • Support for LCD display on or off

Dependencies

  • STM32F4xx
    • STM32F4xx RCC
    • STM32F4xx DMA2D
    • STM32F4xx GPIO
    • STM32F4xx FMC
    • STM32F4xx LTDC
    • STM32F4xx SPI
  • TM
    • TM DMA2D
    • TM SPI
    • TM FONTS
    • TM SDRAM
    • TM GPIO
    • defines.h

Functions

There are some modifications to functions. Other functions are the same as if you use my ILI9341 using SPI. They are listed below:

For other functions look at my old ILI9341 library.

Example

View project on Github, download library below.

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