> What aboat those special driving voltages that are needed in > LCD? I haven4t yet done much research to know how LCD4s actually > work, but I think the driver sends some kind of A.C. voltage. > Wether it4s sine- or square wave, I don4t know.. If you are not multiplexing LCD's, the driving waveform for a lit LCD segment is simply a square wave that goes between [positive some voltage] and [nega- tive some voltage], relative to the common terminal. The simplest way to get this is to drive the common wire with a 5-volt square wave and drive the seg- ments either in-phase or out-of-phase. If you are using a multiplexed display, it's desirable to be able to drive segments with different voltage levels so as to eliminate "bleed-through" effects; unlike an LED, an LCD does not act as a diode so you definitely have to worry about balancing all the voltages on the matrix. I'll write more on this if you're interested, but I don't have time right now.