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this page deals with connecting a nokia 7110 display (or generally: sed1565-based display) to a parallel port and drive it using serdisplib
i'm not responsible for the content of external web pages
external web pages will generally open in separate browser windows or tabs
english is not my native language. please keep that in mind (corrections of english grammar and formulations are very welcome!)
email: mrwastl at users.sourceforge.net

nokia 7110 displays:

description
nokia 7110 displays are controlled using an on-glass controller sed1565. with some technical skills, an independant, small display with background light can be gained out of
these phones at hardly any costs.

specifications
resolution
colours

96x65
monochrome

controller

sed1565

backlight

yes (4 LEDs, green, included in display module)

adjustable contrast
dimensions
name in serdisplib

yes, programmable
module: 48 x 63 mm, display area: 34 x 29 mm (measured)
NOKIA7110

(example: serdisp_init(sdcd, "NOKIA7110", ""); )

pinout, assembling
pinout for nokia 7110 display

http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/ser/sed1565.html

temp sensor 47k (at 25C)

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/CS
D/_C
SCLK

LEDLED+
GND
GND
VDD
SDATA
/RES

chip select (low active)

speaker +
command/data switch
serial clock line of LCD
speaker on/off switch
LED cathode
LED anode
ground for printer port and VDD
== pin 10
+V (Chip power supply, some value around 3V)
serial data input of LCD
low active Reset input

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speaker + and speaker - lead to two contact areas at the front side of the module (no
speaker is actually built-in in the module!)
signal on/off switch is set when pressing the button at the front side of the display
temp sensor is a temperature sensitive resistor

at first i wanted to solder flexcables directly onto the pins, but this didn't
work as expected, so i decided to build 'contact pads' which also did a
good job in my pcd8544-project:
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http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/ser/sed1565.html

from an old circuit board i cut out a small piece [1] and drilled three
holes into it so that it could be screwed with the display module (the
third hole is for the plastic nose of the display module).
i found some nuts that fit exactly into the holes of the display module
and some matching screws [2].
one end of the flex cable was unisolated and assembled such that it
suited exactly for the display's contact pins [3]. the other end was
already ready for insertion into a ZIF-socket (i found this cable in an

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http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/ser/sed1565.html

old apple powerbook)

at last i screwed the plate together with the flex cable onto the
display module

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front and back view of ready assembled nokia 7110 display

some images

http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/ser/sed1565.html

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nokia 7110 display showing a test image

http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/ser/sed1565.html

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nokia 7110 display with output generated by graphlcd

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nokia 7110 display in red (replaced green leds with red ones)
warning: readability suffers when using red backlight
connecting a nokia 7110 display to the parallel port:
intro
the wiring is based on the wiring of optrex 323 and pcd8544-based displays to the parallel port. as i didn't know of any other projects like this (with nokia 7110 displays connected to
the parallel port) i had to chose a wiring-'standard' for myself.

wiring
signals:
+------------------+
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# # # # # # #
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# # # # # # #
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+--======================--+
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<-- background LEDs

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rear view
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connector is visible
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nokia 7110
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<-- on-glass controller

Signal name PC
LCD
Signal name
--------------------------------------------------------Data 0
2
13
SDATA (SI) serial data input of LCD
Data 1
3
5
SCLK serial clock line of LCD
Data 2
4
4
D/_C command/data switch
Data 4
6
2
/CS
chip select (low active)
Data 5
7
14
/RES low active Reset input
Data 7
9
8, 9
backlight (switched using a transistor)
Ground
18
10,11
GND
ground for printer port and VDD
-12
VDD
+V (Chip power supply, some value around 3V)

circuit:

http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/ser/sed1565.html

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part list:
Part#
Type
Value
Annotation
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------R1-R6
Resistor
1 kOhm

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R7

Var.Resistor

eg. 100 Ohm

T1
D1
IC1
R8
R9
C1, C2

Transistor
Diode
Var. Voltage Reg.
Resistor
Resistor
Capacitor

eg. BC547
eg. 1N4148
LM317 (or similar)
eg. 220 Ohm
eg. 330 Ohm
some uF

or higher value if needed;

or simply a resistor with fixed value

Vout should result in some value at 3V

not mandatory, for smoothing input voltage

remarks:
R6, R7, T1, D1 are needed in combination with LED background light only!
R8 and R9 affect Vout of IC1 and are calculated using the following formula:
Vout = 1.25 * (1 + (R9 / R8))
usually (according to the data sheet of LM317) R8 should be 240 Ohm. i chose 220 Ohm.
together with R9 = 330 Ohm i get Vout = 3.15 V.
i also tested a PJ 1084 (smd lowdrop adj. voltage reg.) as a replacement for the LM317 and it worked fine.
attention: different order of pins!

addressing

http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/ser/sed1565.html

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anomaly of nokia 7110

sed1565 supports a max. resolution of 132x65, but nokia 7110 displays only use 96x65. unlike one might expect, the first column is not 0, but 18. so every column
address has to be shifted by 18.
pages vs. rows:
the display is organised in colums and pages: 8 pixel-rows are combined to a so called page.
as only whole bytes can be transferred to the display, a single pixel cannot be changed without knowing its 7 'neighbour' pixels.
so a display buffer was introduced in the library. pixel changes are all done in this buffer and in a separate step only changed 'page bytes' are transferred (using an
optimising algorithm) to the display.
as sed1565 supports 65 lines, 9 pages are used. but only the first bit row is used from the last page.

passing options through serdisp_init():

intro

http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/ser/sed1565.html

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using the third parameter of serdisp_init(), driver specific options and custom wiring can be set.
common information about passing options and customisable wiring can be found in a separate document.
examples:
serdisp_init(sdcd, "NOKIA7110", "ROTATE=90;INVERT=YES;BACKLIGH=OFF");

options
identifier

short

remark

ROTATE

ROT

rotate display (1 == 180 degrees)

INVERT

INV

invert display

delay after each write/read operation.

DELAY

default

0 .. no delay
1 .. one call of gettimeofday()
>1 .. delay at least x nanoseconds
set display contrast

BG

switch background light on or off

WIRING

WIRE

pre-defined or customisable wiring

identifier

range

aliases

ROTATE

0, 1, 90, 180, 270

YES=180, NO=0, TRUE=180, FALSE=0

INVERT

0, 1

YES=1, NO=0, TRUE=1, FALSE=0

DELAY

>= 0

NONE=0

CONTRAST
BACKLIGHT

ranges, aliases

CONTRAST
BACKLIGHT

[0, 10]
0, 1

YES=1, NO=0, TRUE=1, FALSE=0, ON=1, OFF=0

pre-defined wiring definitions

identifier
SerDTSerdisp

numeric id

protocol

PAR

description
SerDisp wiring, serial data transfer

display signals
identifier

description

http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/ser/sed1565.html

mandatory

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SI

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serial data input

serial clock

DC

data or command

ICS

chip select input, active low

SCL

RESET
BACKLIGHT

reset signal, active low; optional if wired to a hardware reset circuit

backlight, optional

annotations
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serdisplib driver sed156x supports two different types of displays:

nokia 7110 uses serial data transfer in opposite to nec 21a display module which uses parallel data transfer. nec 21a uses WIRING=1 which is NOT applicable for nokia 7110
displays!

links:
data sheets
sed1565 controller

data sheet for SED 1565

(english)

sed1565.pdf

links to other projects

Berty's Home Page
Nokia 7110
driving library for Nokia
7110

pinouts, projects, ... for different LCDs. important source for my project

(english)

http://sandiding.tripod.com/Bertys.html

nokia 7110 pinouts (at berty's page)

(english)

http://sandiding.tripod.com/nokialcd7110.html

How to interface a Nokia 7110 lcd with a PIC16F84A microcontroller

(english)

http://sandiding.tripod.com/n7110.html

thanks:
special thanks go to
donating a nokia 7110 phone

* Ren Hofer
* Andreas Fierlinger
* Christian Phringer

history:
2005-05-08

adapted page for new css

added section 'passing options'

2004-08-29

added picture of nokia 7110 display hack using red background light

2004-04-03

added dimensions for display module and display area

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2004-03-28

first final release

2004-03-25

first pre release

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design by wolfgang astleitner, (C) 1998 - 2005

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