Abstract:
LED is the technology of new era and due to low power consumption and
reliability LED has become quite popular in the world. It is a way of visual
information where large LCD and other display become too expensive. At the
time of this project there are a number of large LED display boards erected in
some of the major cities of Pakistan, all of which have been imported from
abroad. At the National Institute of Electronics the idea of starting the project
was to develop an outdoor display board locally that worked successfully in the
climates of Pakistan. Thus saving precious foreign exchange and introducing the
technology to Pakistan. With the successful completion of the project the
technology of developing the LED based display boards is transferred to
Pakistan and new horizons are opened for the Pakistani Electronic industry in
the field of LED technology.
As a student it was a good opportunity to gain experience of working on an
industrial level project. As is predicted it will change our local electronic industry
therefore the experience will certainly be beneficial in the future. For my project I
worked on the hardware portion of the main project, namely the FPGA
programming, and its data forwarding to the display at the required speed and
format. And another part of it was done in Matlab to process images to get the
proper format that the FPGA uses to send to the display.
