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The document discusses an LCD panel interfaced with a microcontroller through output ports. It is a 16x2 LCD capable of displaying characters and graphics. The LCD uses two registers - one for commands and one for characters. It also has a user programmable character RAM. Connecting the LCD to a PC parallel port requires controlling 10 data lines and two control lines.

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Liquid Crystal Display

The document discusses an LCD panel interfaced with a microcontroller through output ports. It is a 16x2 LCD capable of displaying characters and graphics. The LCD uses two registers - one for commands and one for characters. It also has a user programmable character RAM. Connecting the LCD to a PC parallel port requires controlling 10 data lines and two control lines.

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LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY (LCD)

The LCD panel used in this block interfaced with micro-controller through output port. This is a
16 character × 2Line LCD module, capable of display numbers, characters, and graphics. The
display contains two internal byte-wide registers, one for commands (RS=0) and the second for
character to be displayed (RS=1). It also contains a user programmed Ram area (the character
RAM) character that can be formed using dot matrix that can be programmed to generate any
desired. Two distinguished between these areas, the hex command byte will be signify that the
display RAM address 00h is chosen.

LCD can add a lot to our application in terms of providing a useful interface for the user,
debugging an application or just giving it a “professional” look. The most common type of LCD
controller is the Hitachi 44780 which provides a relatively simple interface between a processor
and an LCD. Using this inter is often not attempted by inexperienced designers and programmers
because it is difficult to find good documentation on the interface, initializing the interface can
be problem and the displays themselves are expensive.

Connection to a PC parallel port is mostly simple. These displays can handle eight bit
input directly. They also need two extra lines to control which kind of data has just arrived and
when the data is meant to be stable. Those signals are also called RS (Register Select, instruction
or data register) and EN (enable).

So it has to control ten data lines (8 bits + RS + EN) and one common ground (GND)
line, which make eleven lines to the parallel port. Data read back is not supported by the driver
and so it does not require extra line for this. The following table shows the needed connection.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

Parallel port 16×2


Microcontroller Alphanumeric
LCD
Fig 4.3: 16×2 LCD connection to microcontroller

The pin outs are as follows:

Fig 4.4: LCD Pin out.


Pin No. NameDescription
Pin no. 1 VSS Power supply (GND)
Pin no. 2 VCC Power supply (+5V)
Pin no. 3 VEE Contrast adjust
0 = Instruction input
Pin no. 4 RS
1 = Data input
0 = Write to LCD module
Pin no. 5 R/W
1 = Read from LCD module
Pin no. 6 EN Enable signal
Pin no. 7 D0 Data bus line 0 (LSB)
Pin no. 8 D1 Data bus line 1
Pin no. 9 D2 Data bus line 2
Pin no. 10 D3 Data bus line 3
Pin no. 11 D4 Data bus line 4
Pin no. 12 D5 Data bus line 5
Pin no. 13 D6 Data bus line 6
Pin no. 14 D7 Data bus line 7 (MSB)
Pin no. 15 LED+ Anode of LED for Backlit
Pin no. 16 LED- Cathode of LED for Backlit

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