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Hi guys, over the past few tutorials, we have been discussing TFT displays, how to connect and use them in Arduino projects, especially the 1.8″ Colored TFT display. In a similar way, we will look at how to use the 1.44″ TFT Display (ILI9163C) with the Arduino.

The ILI9163C based 1.44″ colored TFT Display, is a SPI protocol based display with a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels. It’s capable of displaying up to 262,000 different colors. The module can be said to be a sibling to the 1.8″ TFT display, except for the fact that it is much faster and has a better, overall cost to performance ratio when compared with the 1.8″ TFT display. Some of the features of the display are listed below;

TheTFT Display, as earlier stated, communicates with the microcontroller over SPI, thus to use it, we need to connect it to the SPI pins of the Arduino as shown in the schematics below.

Please note that the version of the display used for this tutorial is not available on fritzing which is the software used for the schematics, so follow the pin connection list below to further understand how each pin of the TFT display should be connected to the Arduino.

In order to allow the Arduino to work with the display, we need two Arduino libraries; the sumotoy TFT ILI9163C Arduino library which can be downloaded from this link and the popular Adafruit GFX Arduino library which we have used extensively in several tutorials. Download these libraries and install them in the Arduino IDE.

For today’s tutorial, we will be using the bigtest example which is one of the example codes that comes with the sumotoy ILI9163C Arduino library to show how to use the TFT display.

The example can be opened by going to File–>Examples–>TFT_ILI9163c–>bigtest as shown in the image below. It should be noted that this will only be available after the sumotoy library has been installed.

Next, we define some of the colors that will be used along with the corresponding hex values. If you’ve gone through any of our previous tutorials where we used the Adafruit GFX library, you would have noticed that this code contains a lot from the GFX library and it should be easier for you to follow.

Next, an object of the ILI9163c library named “display” was created with CS and DC parameter as inputs but due to the kind of display being used, we need to include the pin of the Arduino to which the A0 pin of the TFT display is connected which is D8.

Add some dazzle to your project with this 1.45" diagonal graphic TFT display module. This small display packs 128x128 full-color pixels into one square inch of active display area. It is a great choice when you need color and sharp detail while using minimal front panel space. At less than 5 grams, the display adds very little weight to handheld devices.

Thanks to the integrated Sitronix ST7735S or compatible controller, a single 3.3v source powers everything. The SPI host interface allows full read and write control of the display while using only 10 pins. The single bright white LED backlight has anode (A,+) and cathode (K, -) pins brought out on the Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC) tail. To connect, all you need is a standard 10-conductor, 0.5 mm ZIF socket such as Omron Electronics

While the SPI interface requires only a few lines to control this TFT LCD module, it is still possible to transfer data at a rate that supports 20 FPS (Frames Per Second) screen updates -- fast enough to play a full-motion video as shown in our videos.

To get started, download the datasheet and SPI sample code. And of course Crystalfontz is always here to help you when you integrate this display into your application.

The 7-pin display modules do not need "just" SPI, but also CS (Chip Select), D/C (Data or Command), Reset, and optionally a PWM pin for controlling the backlight. As KurtE mentioned, this should work in theory, but the problem is existing library support. The CS pins need to be separate, but all can share the D/C and Reset pins (although you cannot then reset just one display; you can only reset them all if you need to). There is always the risk that the display modules don"t like sharing their lines among so many modules -- for example, if there are too many pull-up/down resistors in the lines, or even if the modules don"t like their D/C pins toggled when their CS is not selected.

The existing ST7735 libraries I looked at do not use a canvas, but send the pixel data resulting from drawing commands via SPI. Assuming 16-bit RGB color, each 128�128 frame needs 32768 bytes; 128�160 needs 40960 bytes. With a full canvas, it would be much easier to support the eight SPI displays, because then the SPI transfers could use DMA. If the library is the only one using that SPI bus, you could avoid the CS pin restrictions by reserving the hardware CS pin (i.e., keep it unused), and let the SPI library think it is using hardware CS pins, too.

The leftover issues is that I don"t know of any graphics libraries for the 16-bit color canvas; you"d need to write your own. The easiest would be to just read them from raw binary files from a microSD card using Paul"s SD library. (It is trivial to convert to/from that raw hardware format and e.g. NetPBM binary .ppm format; and NetPBM tools contain converters to/from JPEG, GIF, and PNG.) Still, you"d need some kind of font-drawing (overlaying on top of image read from microSD) at least. So, quite a bit of coding work.

There is at least one seller on eBay with RGB TFT display modules (of various sizes) that support I2c. These have some sort of microcontroller on board, and you can set different I2C addresses for each module, so you should be able to control several of these on the same I2C bus (without the I2C multiplexer). Instead of pixel data, you send the drawing or writing commands as text to the desired module, so no library per se is needed. They also cost about three or four times as much as the above 7-pin display modules.

There are up to 1.3" single-color OLED displays using the SSD1306 controller. I have the white ones, and I like them quite a bit. Make sure you look at the four-pin ones. In the yellow/blue models, the pixels near the top are yellow, and the rest are blue, on a black background. So, each pixel is always the same color if lit: monochrome. The larger ones (0.96" and 1.3") are 128�64, the smaller (0.91") are 128�32.

This Color TFT LCD display has 128 x 128 resolution and 262 color, it uses SPI interface to communicate with controller such Arduino, it is the best upgrading of the Nokia5110.

Note: ILI9163C Datasheets improperly (not traditional) refer to SPI as a Serial Interface. Please see timing diagram in 6.2.1 called "3-line Serial Interface Protocol"

The DT018ATFT does not support 4-Wire SPI (also known as "4-line Serial Interface Protocol", 8-bit data, which includes a separate D/C signal line). DT018ATFT does not support this since the signal in ILI9163C datasheet called "SPI4" is hard coded to 0. However, a custom version of the FPC can be tooled to expose the proper 4-Wire SPI signals - please contact us for more details.