--- Wallace Yang <yangres2002@rogers.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Where can I find an 8 line by 16 character Hitachi
> 44780 based LCD?  It would be preferable but not vital
> if it had a low power-consuming backlight LED.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
As many have stated your best solution is a graphic LCD you can use a
128x64 for this purpose quite nicely. You do have to store your
character data in some sort of memory. Surprisingly you only need 480
bytes. This gives you 96 5x8 symbols for font data. This is assuming
that
1) you don't need custom symbols
2) you don't need anything biger than a standard 5x7 font.
3) you are using the ASCII symbol set from 32-127.
The standard 128x64 controler makes this kind of thing very easy.
you will get 21x8 instead of 16x8 though. If this is not a problem go
for it.  The cost in volume is very similiar to a 4x20 LCD. The added
flexibility though is priceless.

Stephen R. Phillips was here
Please be advised what was said may be absolutely wrong, and hereby this disclaimer follows.  I reserve the right to be wrong and admit it in front of the entire world.


		
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