Obviously, the use of so many connections and power consumption is impractical for some electronic or microprocessor based circuits and so in order to reduce the number of signal lines required to drive just one single display, display decoders such as the BCD to 7-Segment Display Decoder and Driver IC’s are used instead. Also as the segments are basically a standard light emitting diode, the driving circuit would need to produce up to 20mA of current to illuminate each individual segment and to display the number “8”, all seven segments would need to be lit resulting a total current of nearly 140mA, (8 x 20mA).
It can be seen that to display any single digit number from 0 to 9 in binary or letters from A to F in hexadecimal, we would require seven separate segment connections plus one additional connection for the LED’s “common” connection. Some single displays have also have an additional input pin to display a decimal point in their lower right or left hand corner. In order to produce the required numbers or HEX characters from 0 to 9 and A to F respectively, on the display the correct combination of LED segments need to be illuminated and BCD to 7-segment Display Decoders such as the 74LS47 do just that.Ī standard 7-segment LED display generally has eight (8) input connections, one for each LED segment and one that acts as a common terminal or connection for all the internal display segments.
Typically 7-segment displays consist of seven individual coloured LED’s (called the segments), within one single display package. A Digital Decoder IC, is a device which converts one digital format into another and one of the most commonly used devices for doing this is called the Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) to 7-Segment Display Decoder.ħ-segment LED (Light Emitting Diode) or LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) type displays, provide a very convenient way of displaying information or digital data in the form of numbers, letters or even alpha-numerical characters.
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