Seven Segment Display Everything you need to know about
Seven Segment display is the most common and fundamental display device which is used in many Electronic Gadgets and Appliances like Electric stove,Microwave Owen,Digital Clocks and also in many Digital Meters like Multimeter. The seven segment display is called so since it contains 7 segments of LED which is assembled in a structure resembling like numeral ‘8’.This is because you can form all 10 digits (0-9) from the pattern ‘8’. Actually 7 segment display consists on 8 segments,In which apart from seven segments mentioned above there is an extra segment to display dot,Which can be useful while displaying non integer number. The 7 segments are named as A-G and the optional eighth segment is named as H.As you can see in the diagram the seven segment are arranged to form a shape of ‘8’.If all the segments are given the power then the number ‘8’ will be displayed and if you cutoff the power for segment G then it will result in number ‘0’.Similarly you can form the combinat...