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Weaksauce
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- Nov 13, 2003
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I've got a GB-1494-V-O (or maybe -0?) 16x2 LCD display that I just "liberated" from an old printer one of my housemates was chucking. According to http://www.eio.com/public/lcd.2003/1934.html, here is the pinout:
I've also found posts suggesting that a Hitachi HD44100 or HD44780A00 might drive this LCD via a serial connection. I can't find either of those part numbers on digikey, however. Can anyone suggest an equivilant controller?
Pin number Symbol Level I/O Function
1 Vss - - Power supply (GND)
2 Vcc - - Power supply (+5V)
3 Vee - - Contrast adjust
4 RS 0/1 I 0 = Instruction input
1 = Data input
5 R/W 0/1 I 0 = Write to LCD module
1 = Read from LCD module
6 E 1, 1-->0 I Enable signal
7 DB0 0/1 I/O Data bus line 0 (LSB)
8 DB1 0/1 I/O Data bus line 1
9 DB2 0/1 I/O Data bus line 2
10 DB3 0/1 I/O Data bus line 3
11 DB4 0/1 I/O Data bus line 4
12 DB5 0/1 I/O Data bus line 5
13 DB6 0/1 I/O Data bus line 6
14 DB7 0/1 I/O Data bus line 7 (MSB)
I've also found posts suggesting that a Hitachi HD44100 or HD44780A00 might drive this LCD via a serial connection. I can't find either of those part numbers on digikey, however. Can anyone suggest an equivilant controller?