Philips Semiconductors
LCD controller/driver
Product specification
PCF2104x
1 FEATURES
• Single chip LCD controller/driver
• 1 or 2-line display of up to 24 characters per line, or
2 or 4 lines of up to 12 characters per line
• 5 × 7 character format plus cursor; 5 × 8 for kana
(Japanese syllabary) and user-defined symbols
• On-chip:
– generation of intermediate LCD bias voltages
– oscillator requires no external components (external
clock also possible)
• Display data RAM: 80 characters
• Character generator ROM: 240 characters
• Character generator RAM: 16 characters
• 4 or 8-bit parallel bus or 2-wire I2C-bus interface
• CMOS/TTL compatible
• 32 row, 60 column outputs
• MUX rates 1 : 32 and 1 : 16
• Uses common 11 code instruction set
• Logic supply voltage range, VDD − VSS: 2.5 to 6 V
• Display supply voltage range, VDD − VLCD: 3.5 to 9 V
• Low power consumption.
• I2C-bus address: 011101 SA0.
2 APPLICATIONS
• Telecom equipment
• Portable instruments
• Point-of-sale terminals.
3 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The PCF2104x integrated circuit is similar to the
PCF2114x (described in the “PCF2116 family” data sheet)
but does not contain the high voltage generator of that
device.
The PCF2104x is optimized for chip-on-glass applications.
The ‘x’ in ‘PCF2104x’ represents a specific letter code for
a character set in the character generator ROM (CGROM).
Two standard character sets are currently available,
specified by the letters ‘C’ and ‘L’ (see Figs 5 and 6).
Other character sets are available on request.
The PCF2104x is a low-power CMOS LCD controller and
driver, designed to drive a split screen dot matrix LCD
display of 1 or 2 lines by 24 characters or 2 or 4 lines by
12 characters with a 5 × 8 dot format. All necessary
functions for the display are provided in a single chip,
including on-chip generation of LCD bias voltages which
results in a minimum of external components and lower
system power consumption. To allow partial VDD shutdown
the ESD protection system of the SCL and SDA pins does
not use a diode connected to VDD.
The chip contains a character generator and displays
alphanumeric and kana characters. The PCF2104x
interfaces to most microcontrollers via a 4 or 8-bit bus, or
via the 2-wire I2C-bus.
3.1 Packages
• PCF2104xU/2; chip with bumps in tray
• PCF2104xU/7; chip with bumps on tape.
For further details see Chapter 18.
3.2 Available types
• PCF2104CU/x: character set ‘C’ in CGROM
• PCF2104LU/x: character set ‘L’ in CGROM
• PCF2104NU/x: character set ‘N’ in CGROM.
4 ORDERING INFORMATION
TYPE NUMBER
PCF2104CU/2
PCF2104CU/7
PCF2104LU/2
PCF2104LU/7
PCF2104NU/2
PCF2104NU/7
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chip with bumps in tray
chip with bumps on tape
chip with bumps in tray
chip with bumps on tape
chip with bumps in tray
chip with bumps on tape
1997 Dec 16
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