Datasheet

MAX6960–MAX6963
4-Wire Serially Interfaced
8 x 8 Matrix Graphic LED Drivers
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Maxim Integrated
This allows the host to set up one or more registers in
consecutive MAX6960s with the display indirect address,
autoincrementing only when required (Table 10).
Driver Address Register
Reading the driver address register (Table 11) returns
the driver address that has been assigned to a particu-
lar MAX6960. The order of the driver addresses is
determined purely by the order that the 3-wire interface
is daisy-chained through multiple MAX6960s. The reg-
ister is used to detect the presence of a MAX6960 at an
address, and a binary search on the 256 possible
addresses can be used to determine the size of an
array of MAX6960s.
REGISTER DATA
REGISTER
ADDRESS
CODE (HEX)
D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0
Global driver devices 0x0E
MS
8-bit global driver devices 0x00 to 0xFF LSB
Table 13. Global Driver Devices Format
REGISTER DATA
REGISTER
ADDRESS
CODE (HEX)
D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0
Global driver rows 0x0F MSB 8-bit global driver rows 0x00 to 0xFF LSB
Table 14. Global Driver Rows Format
REGISTER DATA
REGISTER FUNCTION POWER-UP CONDITION
ADDRESS
CODE (HEX)
D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0
Driver address (read only) Address 0 0x00 0 0 000000
Pixel intensity scale Arithmetic for red and green 0x01 X X XXXX00
Panel intensity 128/256 intensity 0x02 1 0 000000
Digit 0 intensity Full 255/256 0x03 1 1 111111
Digit 1 intensity Full 255/256 0x04 1 1 111111
Fault No faults 0x05 0 X XXXX00
Global driver indirect address Address 0x00 0x08 0 0 000000
Global display indirect address
LSB
0x09 0 0 000000
Global display indirect address
MSB
Address 0x0000
0x0A X X 000000
Global plane counter Manual selection to plane 0 0x0B 0 0 000000
Global panel configuration
Shutdown mode,
ripple sync enabled,
mux flip enabled,
color is mono,
4 display planes/1 bit per
pixel
0x0D 0 0 1 1 X X X 0
Global driver devices 256 drivers interconnected 0x0E 1 1 111111
Global driver rows 256 drivers in a row 0x0F 1 1 111111
Table 12. Power-Up Configuration
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When reading from the global registers, only the master MAX6960 (whose driver address is 0x00) responds.