Appendix A: GPO (General

Purpose Output) Programming

nal will be active. Likewise, two programmable registers

(Horizontal Start and Horizontal Duration) control the hori-

zontal component of the control signal. The Horizontal regis-

ter values determine at what pixel count the signal goes ac-

tive and for how many pixel counts the signal stays active

during each line. The Vertical Component enables the signal

for however many lines programmed for and the Horizontal

Component generates pulses within that vertical time period.

Generally the following types of signals are generated:

1.

DC (either “1” or “0”)

2.

A pulse every line.

3.

A pulse once a frame (either in pixels or lines)

4.

Pulsed during active video (pulses are blanked during

vertical blanking period of frame).

Table 3 describes the programming requirements for general

types of pulses generated.

The GPO’s also have a “toggle mode”. This provides the ca-

pability to generate a “REVERSAL” signal used in most LCD

applications. Bit[1] of the Central register is set to a “1” to en-

able toggle mode operation. The GPO is programmed so

that a rising edge is produced when the control signal is re-

quired to toggle. This generally occurs once each line. Also,

the # of edges generated per frame is programmed to be an

odd #. This ensures that the control signal will alternate po-

larity from frame to frame.

Examples of GPO programming to produce specific control

signals are included in the following pages.

TABLE 3. GPO Pulse Generation

Type

Vertical

Start

Vertical

Duration

Horizontal

Start

Horizontal

Duration

GPO Output

1=0

=0

=0

=0

Stuck 0 (When Output Polarity = “0”)

Stuck 1 (When Output Polarity = “1”)

Polarity control is in GPO Control Register bit [0]

2=0

=0

#C

#D

Pulse is generated every line beginning at #C

pixel clocks from start of output line

and lasting for #D pixel clocks.

3#A

#B

#C

=0

Pulse begins at line #A, pixel #C and continues to line #(A+B),

pixel #C (multi-line pulse)

4#A

#B

#C

#D

Pulse generation begins at line #A and continue for #B lines.

Each pulse begins at pixel #C and lasts for #D pixel counts

Note 5: GPO[0]: provides for the data inverting function enabled by bit[3] of the Output Format Control Register.

GPO[9]: provides programmable output RGB data, Clock and SP blanking function enabled by bit[6] of the Input Format Control Register (RSR[2:0]P/N, RSG[2:0]P/N,

RSB[2:0]P/N, RSCKP/N and SP).

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