SSD1306 64x32 Small OLED Screen Problems - PSOC 4

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ToVa_285016
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Hi,

I am trying to connect a smaller OLED screen to my PSOC 4 Pioneer kit.  The code seems to work for a larger version of this OLED (128x64), but when I try to modify it for the smaller 64x32 screen, I cannot get it to work.  I updated the size related parameters and I can get my text to display, but just scrolling across the top small portion of the screen.  I have looked around and cannot find any solution to this.

I have attached the project.

IMG_20210727_135316694.jpg

Thank you for any help you can give.

Regards,
Tom

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Aashita_R
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Hi @ToVa_285016 ,

Have you checked this already existing code example here , which interfaces the SSD1306 128*64 OLED with PSoC 4? Due to the limited resources at my end, I request you to please try this code example for once at your end and check if making changes to this project really works for the SSD1306 64*32 screen at your end?

Please do let us know your comments regarding this and we will try to help you out further.

Best Regards,

Aashita

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Hi,

Thank you for your comment.  In order to simplify things, I took your link and made only two code changes in SSD1306.c:

#define DISPLAYWIDTH 64
#define DISPLAYHEIGHT 32

And being unable to display anything, I made the following edit based on this here link (the author is attempting to do a similar thing)

void display_update(void) {
      
    uint8 cmdbuf[] = {
        0x00,
        SSD1306_COLUMNADDR,
        0x20,                      // start
        (0x20 + (DISPLAYWIDTH-1)), // end
        SSD1306_PAGEADDR,
        0,                      // start
        7                       // end
    };
    display_write_buf( cmdbuf, sizeof(cmdbuf) ); 
    display_write_buf( SSD1306_buffer, sizeof(SSD1306_buffer) );
}

 

This gets me to where I was before, only displaying a few lines correctly and not consistently:

ToVa_285016_0-1627928503083.png

I attached the updated project.  Let me know if you have any questions or can help further.

Regards,

Tom

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MotooTanaka
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Hi,

I just downloaded your project and took a short look at ssd1306.c and in display_init() there was a line

 

// call before first use of other functions
void display_init( uint8 i2caddr ){
...
        SSD1306_SETMULTIPLEX, 0x3f,//(DISPLAYHEIGHT - 1),

 

If it's DISPLAYHEIGHT -1 = 32 - 1 = 31 =  0x1F

So how about trying

 

        SSD1306_SETMULTIPLEX, 0x1f,//(DISPLAYHEIGHT - 1),

 

 

moto

(Edited) Some English correction.

 

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Hi,

Thank you for the suggestion.  I have tried this before, but I had it commented out because it did not work.  Instead of getting anything to display, I get a total white noise screen instead:

ToVa_285016_1-1627928623666.png

If I use the 0x3F value, I at least get some of the display to show (see my post reply to Aashita above.

Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Regards,
Tom

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MotooTanaka
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Hi,

I'm sorry for my poor suggestion.

I googled a little for 64x32 SSD1306 OLED and the one I found was WINSTAR WEA006432A.

And in its datasheet there was

001-WEA006432A_seg_col.JPG

So you may need to offset the segment by 32 otherwise segment 0-31 won't be shown.

Note: If the display you are using has different configuration, this does not apply.

 

Meantime, I read the SSD1306 datasheet a little, and I added some comments in the cmdbuf[] in ssd1306.c

Since you can see some letters on the display, may be electrical setting is not wrong but some other settings

such as SSD1306_SETMULTIPLEX and SSD1306_SEGREMAP need to be considered again.

    uint8 cmdbuf[] = {
        0x00,
        SSD1306_DISPLAYOFF,
        
        SSD1306_SETDISPLAYCLOCKDIV, 0x80,  // suggested ratio
        // A[3:0] divide reatio (D) of DCLK, A[7:4]: Oscillator Frequency
        
        SSD1306_SETMULTIPLEX,       0x3f,  //(DISPLAYHEIGHT - 1),
        // Set MUX ratio to N+1 MUX A[5:0] from 16MUX to 64MUX.  RESET = 111111b = 0x3F
        // 0-14 are invalid entry
        
        SSD1306_SETDISPLAYOFFSET,   0x00,  // No offset
        // Set vertical shift by COM from 0d ~ 63d, reset = 0x00
        
        SSD1306_SETSTARTLINE |      0x00,  // Line 0
        // Set display RAM display start line from 0 - 63, reset = 0x00
        
        SSD1306_CHARGEPUMP,         0x10,  // External VCC 0x10, else 0x14
        
        SSD1306_MEMORYMODE,         0x00, 
        // 0: Horizontal Addressing, 1: Vertical Addressing, 2: Page Addressing 3: invalid
        
        SSD1306_SEGREMAP |          0x1, // Set Segment Re-map
        // A0: column address 0 is mapped to SEG0 (Reset)
        // A1: column address 127 is mapped to SEG0
        
        SSD1306_COMSCANDEC,               // COM output scan directin 
        // C8: COM63 to COM0, C0: COM0 to COM63
        
        SSD1306_SETCOMPINS,         0x12, // Set COM PIns Hardware Configuration
        // 0 0 A5 A4 0 0 1 0
        // A5 Enable COM Left/Right remap
        // A4 0: Sequential COM pin, 1: Alternative COM pin
        
        SSD1306_SETCONTRAST,        0x1F,
        SSD1306_SETPRECHARGE,       0x22,  // External VCC 0x22, else 0xF1
        SSD1306_SETVCOMDETECT,      0x00,
        SSD1306_DISPLAYALLON_RESUME,
        SSD1306_NORMALDISPLAY,
        SSD1306_DEACTIVATE_SCROLL,
        SSD1306_DISPLAYON
    };

In your picture, as I wrote the letters were written OK, although it seemed to have offset.

I wonder if you are drawing any graphic-pixels? or it may be natural that un-initialized pixel area is showing some random pattern.

And at the end of the datasheet, there was a software initialization Flow Chart,

which is slightly different from the cmdbuf[] sequence in ssd1306.c.

This may not be  a problem, but if I were you, I would try to re-organize the command sequence to match with the datasheet's suggestion.

002-initialization_flow.JPG

After all, I'm sorry that I don't have any concrete suggestion nor answer,

but this is what I could find so far 😉

BTW, what is the model number/name of your OLED display?

moto

 

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