PCF8553 Overview
PCF8553 is an ultra low-power LCD segment driver with 4 backplane- and 40 segmentdriver outputs, with either an I2C- or an SPI-bus interface. It prises an internal oscillator, bias generation, instruction decoding, and display controller. For a selection of NXP LCD segment drivers, see Table 23.
PCF8553 Key Features
- Single chip LCD controller and driver with temperature range -40 °C to 85 °C
- Selectable backplane drive configuration: static, 2, 3, or 4 backplane multiplexing
- Selectable display bias configuration: static, 1⁄2, or 1⁄3
- Internal LCD bias generation with buffers
- 40 segment drives
- Up to 20 7-segment numeric characters
- Up to 10 14-segment alphanumeric characters
- Any graphics of up to 160 segments/elements
- Auto-incrementing display data and instruction loading
- Versatile blinking modes