LCD displays

EE 38 May 1986 • • I by Paul Lenz E0-FF 32 special characters, such as Greek letters and lower case letters with descenders. LCD TYPE LM16251 A series of liquid displays -LCDs-available from Sharp Electronics offers Apart from the 192 characters, the unit pro- cesses other instructions as well, for instance: erasure of displayed characters; positioning of the cursors; on and off switching of the cursors; shifting of charac- ters on the display; and others. The characters models which can display up to 4 lines each with from 6 to 80 characters. Some versions have an in- tegral character gener- ator,inafewcases complemented by a con- troller. This article will concentrate on the Type LM16251, which has an in- tegral character generator and controller, and needs only two supply voltages. The LM16251 has a viewing area of two lines, each of 3 which can accommodate up to sixteen characters. 4 Characters are normally displayed on the upper line, and the lower line is then used f...