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20X4 character blue lcd with backlight pic avr MSP430
This is an industry standard HD44780 based controlled 4 lines x 20 characters LCD display with blue backlight and white characters. It is a parallel interface so you will need 7 GPIO pins for 4-bit mode or 11 GPIO pins for 8-bit mode to interface to this LCD screen.
Wide viewing angle and high contrast
Industry standard HD44780 equivalent LCD controller built-in
Don't need separate power supply for backlight
Supported 4 or 8 bit parallel interface
Display 4-line X 20-character
Free 16 positions male header
Module Size (W x H x T): 98mm X 60mm X 14mm
Black Metal Bezel (W x H): 98mm X 40mm
Viewing Area (W x H): 76mm X 25.2mm
Need to communicate using UART or USB, check this out Serial LCD driver module, USB LCD driver module.
Basic wiring interface with printer parallel port
LCD Smartie software for Windows to interface with the LCDs
LCDproc software for Linux to interface with the LCDs
Another parallel LCD wiring tutorial
How to control a HD44780-based character LCD tutorial
