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Product data sheet Rev. 1 — 13 November 2013 20 of 63
NXP Semiconductors
PCA8546
4 x 44 automotive LCD driver
8.3 Possible display configurations
The PCA8546 is a versatile peripheral device designed to interface between any
microcontroller to a wide variety of LCD segment or dot matrix displays (see Figure 10
). It
can drive multiplexed LCD with 4 backplanes and up to 44 segments.
[1] 7 segment display has 8 elements including the decimal point.
[2] 14 segment display has 16 elements including decimal point and accent dot.
The display configuration in Table 21 can be implemented in the typical systems shown in
Figure 11
and Figure 12.
Fig 10. Example of displays suitable for PCA8546
Table 21. Display configuration
Number of Digits/Characters Dot matrix/
Elements
Backplanes Segments Icons 7 segment
[1]
14 segment
[2]
4 44 176 22 11 176
Fig 11. Typical system configuration for the I
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