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PCA85233

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Product data sheet

Rev. 5 — 12 November 2018

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NXP Semiconductors

PCA85233

Automotive 80 × 4 LCD driver for low multiplex rates

When display data is transmitted to the PCA85233, the received display bytes are stored

in the display RAM in accordance with the selected LCD drive mode. The data is stored as

it arrives and depending on the current multiplex drive mode the bits are stored singularly,

in pairs, triples or quadruples. To illustrate the filling order, an example of a 7-segment

display showing all drive modes is given in Figure 5; the RAM filling organization depicted

applies equally to other LCD types.

The following applies to Figure 5:

• In static drive mode the eight transmitted data bits are placed into row 0 as one byte.

• In 1:2 multiplex drive mode the eight transmitted data bits are placed in pairs into

row 0 and 1 as four successive 2-bit RAM words.

• In 1:3 multiplex drive mode the eight bits are placed in triples into row 0, 1, and 2 as

three successive 3-bit RAM words, with bit 3 of the third address left unchanged. It is

not recommended to use this bit in a display because of the difficult addressing. This

last bit may, if necessary, be controlled by an additional transfer to this address, but

care should be taken to avoid overwriting adjacent data because always full bytes are

transmitted (see Section 7.3.3).

• In 1:4 multiplex drive mode, the eight transmitted data bits are placed in quadruples

into row 0, 1, 2, and 3 as two successive 4-bit RAM words.

The display RAM bitmap shows the direct relationship between the display RAM addresses and

the segment outputs and between the bits in a RAM word and the backplane outputs.

Fig 4.

Display RAM bitmap

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