At 01:51 AM 6/26/02 -0400, Erik Jacobs wrote: >When using the Hitachi 44780 (or equivalents)... if you are using the 4-bit >mode how should you terminate the connections to the remaining pins? The >datasheet itself makes no mention of the other pins (DB8+) so are they >simply not connected? Once the device is "set" to bein 4-bit mode it would >then appear to become irrelevant... but what about during initialization? The data pins have internal pull-up resistors on them. Just letting them float seems to be OK. dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 18 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2002) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads