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LCD Display
Product Description
This is a standard 16 character, 2 line LCD display driven with a HD44780-equivalent LCD controller. It can easily be driven using a 4 or 8 bit microcontroller and is compatible with many standard LCD libraries. It has a blue backlight that runs off 5VDC.
Pin Description
Pin Number | Pin Name | Description |
1 | VSS | Ground |
2 | VDD | Power Supply (5VDC) |
3 | V0 | Display Contrast1 |
4 | RS | Command / Data Selection |
5 | RW | Read / Write Selection |
6 | E | Enable |
7 | D0 | Parallel Data Input2 |
8 | D1 | |
9 | D2 | |
10 | D3 | |
11 | D4 | |
12 | D5 | |
13 | D6 | |
14 | D7 | |
15 | A | Backlight (VDD) |
16 | K | Backlight (GND) |
1 Typically this will be connected to a potentiometer (+ 1.5K - 2.2K) which can be adjusted to set the display contrast 2 Parallel data input. The LCD can be driven with either 4 or 8 lines (see the display controller datasheet (below) for more information. |