LCD Modules

Description

LCD module (Liquid Crystal Display)

The LCD module (Liquid Crystal Display) screen is an electronic display module with a wide range of applications. LCD module display is economical; can easily be programmed and has unlimitated of displaying special and even custom characters, animations and so on.

LCD module display

LCD module display is based on a pixel matrix in a wide range of standard Character LCD modules such as 8×2, 12×2, 16×1, 16×2, 16×4, 20×2, 20×4, 24×2 and even 40×4 formats usually at 5×8 or 5×7 dot matrix characters. LCD module panel technologies include TN, STN, FSTN, FFSTN and can be equipped with polarizer positive mode and negative mode options. Different LED backlight colorss for the LCD module are also available, including yellow/green, white, red, blue, green, amber.

16×2 LCD module

Our common 16×2 LCD module can display 16 characters per line in 2 lines. Each character is displayed in 5×7 pixel matrix. LCD modules have two registers, namely, Command and Data.

The command register stores the command instructions given to the LCD. A command is an instruction given to the LCD to perform a predefined task like initializing it, clearing its screen, setting the cursor position, controlling display etc. The data register stores the data to be displayed on the LCD. The data is the ASCII value of the character to be displayed on the LCD. Different LCD modules may have properties better suited to your particular needs – please contact a AVIVC&EMS representative to learn more!