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Sensor Watch Simulator (#35)
* Put something on screen * Use the 32bit watch_date_time repr to pass from JS * Implement periodic callbacks * Clear display on enabling * Hook up watch_set_led_color() to SVG (green-only) * Make debug output full-width * Remove default Emscripten canvas * Implement sleep and button clicks * Fix time zone conversion bug in beats-time app * Clean up warnings * Fix pin levels * Set time zone to browser value (if available) * Add basic backup data saving * Silence format specifier warnings in both targets * Remove unnecessary, copied files * Use RTC pointer to clear callbacks (if available) * Use preprocessor define to avoid hardcoding MOVEMENT_NUM_FACES * Change each face to const preprocessor definition * Remove Intl.DateTimeFormat usage * Update shell.html title, header * Add touch start/end event handlers on SVG buttons * Update shell.html * Update folder structure (shared, simulator, hardware under watch-library) * Tease out shared components from watch_slcd * Clean up simulator watch_slcd.c inline JS calls * Fix missing newlines at end of file * Add simulator warnings (except format, unused-paremter) * Implement remaining watch_rtc functions * Fix button bug on mouse down then drag out * Implement remaining watch_slcd functions * Link keyboard events to buttons (for keys A, L, M) * Rewrite event handling (mouse, touch, keyboard) in C * Set explicit text UTF-8 charset in shell.html * Address PR comments * Remove unused directories from include paths
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+SLCD Synchronous driver
+=======================
+
+An LCD display is made of several segments (pixels or complete symbols) which
+can be block light or let light through. In each segment is one electrode
+connected to the common terminal (COM pin) and one is connected to the segment
+terminal (SEG pin). When a voltage above a certain threshold level is applied
+across the liquid crystal, it will change orientation and either let light
+through or block it.
+
+The driver supports segment on/off/blink, animation and character display.
+
+Each segment has a unique int32 segment id which is used by the driver. The id is
+combined by common number(COM) and segment number(SEG), the COM and SEG start from 0.
+The unique segment id is calculated by this formula: (COM << 16) | SEG
+For example a 8(coms)*8(segments)SLCD, the unique segment id for segment should be
+
+ +-----+-----+---------+
+ | COM | SEG | ID |
+ +-----+-----+---------+
+ | 0 | 0 | 0x00000 |
+ +-----+-----+---------+
+ | 1 | 0 | 0x10000 |
+ +-----+-----+---------+
+ | 7 | 7 | 0x70007 |
+ +-----+-----+---------+
+
+Segment ID can be calculated using the pre-defined macro SLCD_SEGID(com, seg).
+
+For character display, the "segment character mapping table" and "character mapping table"
+should be setup in configuration. The driver have no API to setup/change those
+mapping setting.
+There are two pre-defined "segment character mapping table" in this driver, 7 segments
+and 14 segments. The 7 segment character mapping can display 0-9 and a-f, the 14
+segments character mapping can display 0-9, A-Z and some special ASCII, for more
+details please refer to hpl_slcd_cm_7_seg_mapping.h and hpl_slcd_cm_14_seg_mapping.h.
+Application can also adjust this mapping table in the configuration header file,
+to add more character mapping or remove some unused character.
+
+The "character mapping" is used to setup each character in SLCD display screen.
+The driver supports multiple character mapping, the max number varies on different
+MCU/MPU. For example if an LCD display screen has five "7-segments character" and
+eight "14-segments character", and the MCU support max 44 characters setting, then
+the 13 character should be setup in configuration. Application can select any
+position from those 44 characters setting to save those 13 character.
+The index of character setting will be used in the driver API. For example:
+five "7-segments character" setting to 0 to 4 and eight "14-segments character" setting
+to 10 to 17. Then the application can use index from 0 to 4 to display the
+"7-segments character" and use index from 10 to 14 to display "14-segments character".
+
+Features
+--------
+
+* Initialization and de-initialization
+* Enabling and Disabling
+* Switching segment on/off
+* Set segment blink
+* Autonomous animation
+* Character display
+
+Applications
+------------
+* SLCD display control, segment on/off/blink
+* Play battery animation, running wheel, wifi signal, etc.
+* Display Time Clock by 7 segments character mapping
+* Display ASCII character by 14 segments character mapping
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+* SLCD capable hardware
+
+Concurrency
+-----------
+N/A
+
+Limitations
+-----------
+
+Known issues and workarounds
+----------------------------
+N/A