Nokia 6100 Library

[AtomSoft]

The real secret to making PCB's is simply taking your time, not rushing and doing it right the first time =)

This is completely true. . At least for your first ten boards. Or so... I can make that Nokia board and populate it in 20 minutes now. etching is Longest part being 15 min. I am working on better etching methods now.

 

[Sceadwian]

Don't try to speed up your etching too much, you'll just get bad etching faster. Etching should be a near constant in your production especially if you've managed to get solid boards out with every other facet of the way you make them.

 

[AtomSoft]

What i meant was that i was going to automate the process. So it saves me effort n time.

 

[haxan]

I have made very nice PCB's in the past. Its that my laminating machine got burnt and now i have to iron the PCB and transfer paper. This usually ruins the delicate traces such as the ones required for LCD connector. Also 3 times it happened that while using solder wick, my trace got ripped out too

 

[AtomSoft]

that has happened to me in the past.. It truely sux and i always take my time to pre solder connectors and actual pad with small solder amounts then clean iron and heat the part to pad since both have solder

 

[haxan]

Is your library for 8Mhz or 4Mhz ?

 

[haxan]

Also is this LCD slower than GLCD we used (Unicorn thread) as one is Serial and the other is parallel.

 

[AtomSoft]

Not sure. I really didnt look into the specifics that much. I know this LCD can be used to play videos. Ill post a link

 

[AtomSoft]

Here ya go:
YouTube - XMOS Processor playing Family Guy on Nokia 6100 screen

 

[AtomSoft]

Just a update:

New Nokia 6100 boards Atomsoft's Blog

 

[bryan]

Will you be uploading the eagle file?

 

[AtomSoft]

Of course but after carefull testing and some time heh

 

[haxan]

I have the LCD working (thanks to AtomSoft) however i find it pretty slow in comparison to 128 x 64 GLCD i had earlier. Is there a way to speed up the LCD? Currently i am using 4 MHz oscillator, will changing it to 10MHz or 8MHz help.

This LCD in nokia hand sets is pretty amazing but not when interfaced with PIC, what gives?

 

[AtomSoft]

4mhz is pretty slow. i used this with a 10mips pic with great results. thats 40mhz pic for 8 bit core. check the lcd datasheet for max speed of lcd. ive seen this on a xmos playing a movie and was nice. not to slugish at all.

 

[haxan]

I have 18F4520 which has 10 MIPS. Would replacing to a higher clock will do any good like 8MHz or 10?

 

[haxan]

Ok, the speed definitly gets better when i put in 8MHz Oscillator. However when i put in 12MHz, nothing shows up. I have an oscillator 11.0592 which works better than 8MHz. How can i use 12MHz or better yet 24MHz oscillator ?

 

[AtomSoft]

you have to ajust the timing in code also for ms delay

 

[haxan]

Ok, i have been able to make it pretty fast using HSPLL and adding 11.0592 crystal which is going beyond 40MHz

I will move back to 10MHz crystal in order to avoid any problems.

 

[AtomSoft]

great to hear you got the speed up!! Imagine a PIC32 120mhz with this LCD at high speed it would rock!