Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Common Types of LCD Displays

By Wesley Bryan


The most common sort of monochrome LCD modules are known as Alphanumeric LCD Displays or a Character LCD Display.

Engineers and hardware designers favor Alphanumeric lcd displays for fast development products. The display contains its own controller driver chip with a character map built into the IC. The character map makes it easy for the design to integrate their software, aka firm ware, into the prewritten software of the LCD module. When the engineer wants to show the letter 'A ', all they need to do is send a command requesting the capital 'A'. This is much easier than a graphics LCD module where each dot on the letter 'A ' wants to addressed. This is a long activity.

There are a large number of manufactures and electronic distributors that all carry the same model or sort of the Alphanumeric LCD displays. I might guess there are over 50 providers that will supply the same 162 STN, yellow/green 6:00 with LED backlight. They're all changeable with one another and the pricetag difference between suppliers is small. In truth almost all of the time OEMs design in the standard Alphanumeric LCD display not to save cash or reduce development time, but to make sure there are tons of backup providers.

Construction of an Alphanumeric LCD Display

Character LCD displays have been a real technology for a few years. The most common development of the Alphanumeric LCD display is sometimes known as a COB or chip on Board. Here is where there's a PCB attached to the LCD glass. The name Chip on board means the controller driver chip is located on the back of the Printed circuit board. This type of module handles vibration really well. Also the mounting holes found on the PCB permit a simple secure method to connect the LCD to the customer's product.

Alphanumeric LCD displays get built in standard configurations like 162, 81 and 404 . The identifying of these displays is broken down into the amount of characters in each row and then the amount of rows. An example of this is a 162. That means there are 16 characters in each row. There are 2 rows of these characters. That implies the Alphanumeric LCD can display a total of 32 characters at a time.

A personality is any letter, capital and non-capital, any number and the punctuation mark,eg period, comma and back chop. The character table built into the micro controller of the LCD can display 255 separate characters. Naturally there are several languages, so that you can select a character table that displays English, French, German and plenty of other languages.

Most Alphanumeric LCD displays can't display Chinese and Japanese without the employment of a larger personality size. This implies that a 162 that's built to display Chinese will be larger than a 162 that is manufactured to display English characters.




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