HD44780 compatible with KS0066U

[Ron]

Hello,

My wife bought me a PIC development board with and LCD built on it. The data sheet states is has a KS0066U controller. Will this type of LCD word with Flowcode?

I have attached the data sheet.

Thanks

Ron

[Steve]

I'm pretty sure that the LCDs we use in our E-Blocks and development boards use the KS066U ccontroller, so Flowcode should work with this fine. Please note that Flowcode can only use these LCD boards in "4-bit" mode. You should be able to see the appropriate connections to use by looking at our LCD E-Block datasheet.

[echase]

Wow, there's a wife who loves her husband!

[tmd_63]

I am a bit confused about these LCD's.
Most of the posts appear to show the Flowcode component as one based on a HD44780 drivers chip, but the datasheet for this device says it is only able to display 8x2 or 16x1 characters at 5x8 format. This is held up by the datasheet showing 16 row and 40 column drivers to the LCD. The Flowcode component has 16x1, 16x2, 16x4, 20x1, 20x2 and 40x1 charater formats. All but one are not available using a single driver chip. How is this possible?
I am trying to use a diffrent driver chip which is capabile of 20x2. This is a Novatech NT7605 driver on a BTC-2002E-SBYD-G-G-A01 display. Is this also a compatiable device?

[Sean]

Larger displays are driven by multiple controller chips. A single common interface is provided for all configurations (HD44780 compatibility), and data is automatically directed to the appropriate chip by on-board logic.

[tmd_63]

Thank you Sean for that.
Do you know if the Novatech driver is an Hitachi compatiable?
It has the same command and data lines.

[Sean]

We can not confirm that the NT7605 is fully HD44780 compatible, as we are not aware of ever having used one.
A quick look at the data sheets indicates that the two devices are very similar, and the NT7605 supports the 4-bit mode used by Flowcode.

Googling the two device name together results in several pages of hits. The link below might be of interest.

http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php ... 73ed603ec7