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Driving Liquid Crystal Displays with the PIC16F913/914/916/917/946

From Microchip Technology, Inc.
 

 

The PIC16F913/914/916/917/946 microcontroller family provides an integrated LCD Driver module that directly drives LCD displays. In large scale applications, directly driving a custom LCD display can provide significant cost savings. In addition, low-power applications can benefit from the low operating current of a PIC® microcontroller compared to stand-alone LCD controllers.

This application note will describe all of the steps necessary in configuring and operating LCD displays with the LCD Driver module. The theory of LCD operation will not be discussed here as these details have been thoroughly explained in AN658, LCD Fundamentals Using PIC16C92X Microcontrollers (DS00658) available at www.microchip.com.

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