SPECIFICATION
Product Type
: EPD
Model Number : 1.54inch e-Paper Module (C)
Description       :   
Screen Size: 1.54"
Color: Black, White and Yellow
Display Resolution: 152*152
10F, International Science & Technology Building, Fuhong Rd, 
Futian District, Shenzhen, China
Email: sales@waveshare.com 
Website: www.waveshare.com
1.54inch e-paper Module (C)
Revision History 
Rev. 
1.0 
1.1 
Issued Date 
Dec.22.2016
Jun.20.2017
Revised Contents 
Preliminary
1.
In part 8-2): Modify command 50.
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 
CONTENTS 
ITEM 
Cover 
Revision History 
Contents 
Application 
Features 
Mechanical Specifications 
Mechanical Drawing of EPD module 
Input/Output Terminals 
Command Table 
Electrical Characteristics 
Typical Operating Sequence 
Optical Characteristics 
Handling, Safety and Environment Requirements
Reliability test 
Point and line standard 
Packing 
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1. Over View
The display is a TFT active matrix electrophoretic display, with interface and a reference system design. The 1.54” active area
contains 152×152 pixels, and has 1-bit white/black and 1-bit yellow full display capabilities. An integrated circuit contains
gate buffer, source buffer, interface, timing control logic, oscillator, DC-DC, SRAM, LUT, VCOM and border are supplied
with each panel.
2. Features
 High contrast
 High reflectance
 Ultra wide viewing angle
 Ultra low power consumption
 Pure reflective mode
 Bi-stable
 Commercial temperature range
 Landscape, portrait mode
 Antiglare hard-coated front-surface
 Low current deep sleep mode
 On chip display RAM
 Waveform stored in On-chip OTP
 Serial peripheral interface available
 On-chip oscillator
 On-chip booster and regulator control for generating VCOM, Gate and source driving voltage
 I2C Signal Master Interface to read external temperature sensor
 Available in COG package IC thickness 280um
3. Mechanical Specifications
Parameter 
Screen Size 
Display Resolution 
Active Area 
Pixel Pitch 
Pixel Configuration 
Outline Dimension 
Weight 
Specifications 
1.54 
152(H)×152(V) 
27.51(H)×27.51(V) 
0.181×0.181 
Square 
31.80(H)×37.32(V) ×0.98(D) 
3±0.5 
Unit 
Inch 
Pixel 
mm 
mm 
mm 
g 
Remark 
Dpi: 140 
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4. Mechanical Drawing of EPD module
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5.
Input/Output Terminals
5-1) Pin out List
Pin # 
Type 
Single 
Description 
Remark 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
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15 
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23 
24 
NC 
GDR 
RESE 
VGL 
VGH 
TSCL 
O 
O 
C 
C 
O 
No connection and do not connect with other NC pins 
Keep Open 
N-Channel MOSFET Gate Drive Control 
Current Sense Input for the Control Loop 
Negative Gate driving voltage 
Positive Gate driving voltage 
I2C Interface to digital temperature sensor Clock pin 
Note 5-5 
Note 5-4 
Note 5-3 
Note 5-2 
Note 5-1 
I/O 
TSDA 
I2C Interface to digital temperature sensor Date pin 
I 
O 
I 
I 
I 
I/O 
I/O 
I 
I 
C 
C 
C 
C 
C 
C 
C 
BS1 
BUSY 
RES # 
D/C # 
CS # 
D0 
D1 
Bus selection pin 
Busy state output pin 
Reset 
Data /Command control pin 
Chip Select input pin 
serial clock pin (SPI) 
serial data pin (SPI) 
VDDIO 
Power for interface logic pins 
VCI 
VSS 
VDD 
VPP 
VSH 
Power Supply pin for the chip 
Ground 
Core logic power pin 
Power Supply for OTP Programming 
Positive Source driving voltage 
PREVGH 
Power Supply pin for VGH and VSH 
VSL 
Negative Source driving voltage 
PREVGL 
Power Supply pin for VCOM, VGL and VSL 
VCOM 
VCOM driving voltage 
Note 5-1: This pin (CS#) is the chip select input connecting to the MCU. The chip is enabled for MCU communication only when CS# 
is pulled Low. 
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Note  5-2:  This  pin  (D/C#)  is  Data/Command  control  pin  connecting  to  the  MCU.  When  the  pin  is  pulled  HIGH,  the  data  will  be 
interpreted as data. When the pin is pulled Low, the data will be interpreted as command. 
Note 5-3: This pin (RES#) is reset signal input. The Reset is active Low. 
Note  5-4:  This  pin  (BUSY)  is  Busy  state  output  pin.  When  Busy  is  Low,  the  operation  of  chip  should  not  be  interrupted  and  any 
commands should not be issued to the module. The driver IC will put Busy pin Low when the driver IC is working such as: 
- Outputting display waveform; or
- Programming with OTP
- Communicating with digital temperature sensor
Note 5-5: This pin (BS1) is for 3-line SPI or 4-line SPI selection. When it is “Low”, 4-line SPI is selected. When it is “High”, 3-line SPI 
(9 bits SPI) is selected. Please refer to below Table. 
Table: Bus interface selection 
BS1  MPU Interface 
L 
H 
4-lines serial peripheral interface (SPI) 
3-lines serial peripheral interface (SPI) – 9 bits SPI 
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6. Command Table
W/R: 0: Write cycle    1: Read cycle
# 
Command 
1 
Panel Setting (PSR) 
2 
Power Setting (PWR) 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
Power OFF(POF) 
Power  OFF  Sequence 
Setting(PFS) 
Power ON(PON) 
Power 
Measure(PMES) 
ON 
Booster 
Start(BTST) 
Soft 
8  Deep Sleep 
9 
Display 
Start 
Transmission  1(DTM1, 
white/black 
Data) 
(x-byte command) 
10  Data Stop 
11  Display Refresh(DRF) 
12 
13 
Data) 
Display 
Start 
Transmission  2(DTM2, 
Red 
(x-byte 
command) 
VCOM LUT(LUTC) 
command, 
(45-byte 
structure  of  bytes  2~7 
repeated) 
0 
0 
0 
0 
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0 
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1.54inch e-paper Module (C)
C/D: 0: Command    1: Data 
D7~D0: -: Don’t care      #: Valid Data 
W/R  C/D  D7  D6  D5  D4  D3  D2  D1  D0  Registers 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Default 
00h 
0Fh 
RES[1:0],REG,KW/R,UD, 
SHL,SHD_N,RST_N 
01h 
VDS_EN,VDG_EN 
03h 
VCOM_HV,VGHL_LV[1:0]  00h 
26h 
VDH[5:0] 
26h 
VDL[5:0] 
VDHR[5:0] 
03h 
02h 
03h 
00h 
04h 
T_VDS_OF 
BT_PHA[7:0] 
BT_PHB[7:0] 
BT_PHC[5:0] 
Check code 
B/W Pixel Data (160×296) 
KPXL[1:8] 
.. 
KPXL[n-1:n] 
Red Pixel Data(160×296) 
RPXL[1:8] 
.. 
RPXL[n-1:n] 
05h 
06h 
17h 
17h 
17h 
07h 
A5h 
10h 
00h 
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00h 
11h 
00h 
12h 
13h 
00h 
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20h 
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