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Product data sheet Rev. 4 — 6 May 2015 8 of 54
NXP Semiconductors
PCA85233
Automotive 80 × 4 LCD driver for low multiplex rates
An additional feature is for an arbitrary selection of LCD segments to blink. This applies to
the static and 1:2 multiplex drive modes and can be implemented without any
communication overheads. By means of the output bank selector, the displayed RAM
banks are exchanged with alternate RAM banks at the blink frequency. This mode can
also be specified by the blink-select command.
In the 1:3 and 1:4 multiplex modes, where no alternate RAM bank is available, groups of
LCD segments can blink by selectively changing the display RAM data at fixed time
intervals.
If the entire display can blink at a frequency other then the typical blink frequency. This
can be effectively performed by resetting and setting the display enable bit E at the
required rate using the mode-set command (see Table 6
).
7.3 Display RAM
The display RAM is a static 80 4 bit RAM which stores LCD data.
There is a one-to-one correspondence between
• the bits in the RAM bitmap and the LCD segments/elements
• the RAM columns and the segment outputs
• the RAM rows and the backplane outputs.
A logic 1 in the RAM bitmap indicates the on-state of the corresponding LCD element;
similarly, a logic 0 indicates the off-state.
The display RAM bit map, Figure 4
, shows rows 0 to 3 which correspond with the
backplane outputs BP0 to BP3, and columns 0 to 79 which correspond with the segment
outputs S0 to S79. In multiplexed LCD applications the segment data of the first, second,
third and fourth row of the display RAM are time-multiplexed with BP0,
BP1, BP2, and BP3 respectively.
Table 12. Blink frequencies
Blink mode Operating mode ratio Blink frequency with respect to f
clk
(typical) Unit
f
clk
= 3.600 kHz f
clk
= 5.280 kHz
off - blinking off blinking off Hz
14.76.9Hz
22.33.4Hz
31.21.7Hz