Hi, shameless plug:
<http://www.piclist.com/techref/member/IMB-yahoo-J86/HD44780-tty.htm>

This is my HD44780 implementation. It is very stable and offer some
advantages over many other available on the Internet.
I wrote it following the original HD44780 datasheet.

Cheers,

Isaac


On 17/03/2015 09:09, Matt Rhys-Roberts wrote:
> Hi, I'm right at the start of trying to drive a generic ST7066U-based=20
> 2x16 LCD character display, compatible with HD44780/KS0066/KS0070B etc.
>
> Talking to the display can be done using 4 or 8 bits. I'm using 8 bits=20
> for now until I can prove any advantage to using 4. Pin count costs,=20
> perhaps? Any opinions on this please?
>
> It seems logical to use the pre-written LCD library code provided by=20
> Microchip, rather than write my own, at this stage. So I think I need to=
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> include xlcd.h, but then I'm not too clear about getting the job done. I=
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> can see a number of .c files under=20
> /opt/microchip/xc8/v1.33/sources/pic18/plib/XLCD which I guess I'd call,=
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> and pass parameters accordingly.
>
> So my question is, has anyone seen a good user guide to setting all this=
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> up? I seem to have found the details before finding any kind of manual.
>
> Many thanks,
> Matt.

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