On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 08:08:18 +0100, you wrote:

>In message <0HG300GLIIS5A7@mtaout03.icomcast.net>
>          Matt Pobursky <piclist@MPS-DESIGN.COM> wrote:
>
>> In those cases, I have had great luck with Philips I2C LCD =
controllers.
>> I keep a tube of PCF8566's in my engineering stock even. They do
>> static, 1->4 backplanes, on-chip bias generator, work from 2.5 to 6V
>> and are really low power devices. Easy to use and versatile.
>Nokia 3310 or 3210 LCD panel. Philips SPI-bus controller, maximum clock =
rate
>is (IIRC) 5MHz. I've had one displaying graphics, now I'm moving onto =
text.
>That's going to be fun - I bet about half of my PIC's program memory is =
going
>to be eaten by the character lookup tables.=20
You could always stick these in an external eeprom (probably want to use =
SPI, not I2C for speed)

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