ILI9341 LCD Controller driver
Overview
The ILI9341 is a 262,144-color single-chip SOC driver for a-TFT liquid crystal display with resolution of 240RGBx320 dots, comprising a 720-channel source driver, a 320-channel gate driver, 172,800 bytes GRAM for graphic display data of 240RGBx320 dots, and power supply circuit. ILI9341 supports parallel 8-/9-/16-/18-bit data bus MCU interface, 6-/16-/18-bit data bus RGB interface and 3-/4-line serial peripheral interface (SPI).
The ILI9341 LCD controller driver is a platform-agnostic driver, based on the generic MIPI driver. It implements display initialization, supports display rotation and implements the display flush callback. The user needs to implement only two platform-specific functions to send a command or pixel data to the controller via SPI or parallel bus. Typically these are implemented by calling the appropriate SDK library functions on the given platform.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites.
Configuring the driver
Enable the ILI9341 driver support in lv_conf.h, by cmake compiler define or by KConfig
#define LV_USE_ILI9341 1
Usage
You need to implement two platform-dependent functions:
/* Send short command to the LCD. This function shall wait until the transaction finishes. */
int32_t my_lcd_send_cmd(lv_display_t *disp, const uint8_t *cmd, size_t cmd_size, const uint8_t *param, size_t param_size)
{
...
}
/* Send large array of pixel data to the LCD. If necessary, this function has to do the byte-swapping. This function can do the transfer in the background. */
int32_t my_lcd_send_color(lv_display_t *disp, const uint8_t *cmd, size_t cmd_size, uint8_t *param, size_t param_size)
{
...
}
To create an ILI9341-based display use the function
/**
* Create an LCD display with ILI9341 driver
* @param hor_res horizontal resolution
* @param ver_res vertical resolution
* @param flags default configuration settings (mirror, RGB ordering, etc.)
* @param send_cmd platform-dependent function to send a command to the LCD controller (usually uses polling transfer)
* @param send_color platform-dependent function to send pixel data to the LCD controller (usually uses DMA transfer: must implement a 'ready' callback)
* @return pointer to the created display
*/
lv_display_t * lv_ili9341_create(uint32_t hor_res, uint32_t ver_res, lv_lcd_flag_t flags,
lv_ili9341_send_cmd_cb_t send_cmd_cb, lv_ili9341_send_color_cb_t send_color_cb);
For additional details and a working example see the generic MIPI driver documentation.
Note
You can find a step-by-step guide and the actual implementation of the callbacks on an STM32F746 using STM32CubeIDE and the ST HAL libraries here: Step-by-step Guide: How to use the LVGL v9 LCD drivers with STM32 devices