The PCA2117 is a low-power Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) controller and driver. It is specifically designed to drive LCD dot-matrix displays of 2‑lines by 20 characters or 1‑line by 40 characters with ...

While the SSD1306 OLED has somewhat become the go-to display for up-to-date projects, the good old character displays with their Hitachi HD44780 controller don’t seem to be disappearing just yet ...

This project illustrates how the HD44780 LCD displays are driven by DIP switches or an ATmega8 microcontroller. This project illustrates how the HD44780 LCD displays are driven by DIP switches or an ...

[Tech2077] is one of the lucky ones who already got his hands on a Raspberry Pi. He’s been looking into different interface options with the GPIO header and just posted a guide to using an HD44780 ...

A new LCD has been designed with 160 large, easy-to-read dot-matrix characters. The LCM-H04004DSR/D2T has four lines of 40 characters, each measuring 5.16 mm x 10.52 mm high. Applications include ...

Chip-on-glass LCD drivers allow an LCD voltage up to 16 V with accurate software-programmable temperature compensation for high and stable contrast over an extended temperature range. Two new ...

Also, setup and key adjustments are more complicated with LCDs—and much more necessary—than they are with CRTs. To be sure, all displays can benefit from proper tuning and adjustment. But ...

This column recently discussed several advanced television displays, including liquid crystal displays (LCDs). As is true of all display types, LCDs have positive and negative attributes, but enough ...