HITACHI HD44780U (LCD-II) -(Dot Matrix Liquid Crystal Display Controller/Driver)

The HD44780U dot-matrix liquid crystal display controller and driver LSI displays alphanumerics, Japanese kana characters, and symbols. It can be configured to drive a dot-matrix liquid crystal display under the control of a 4- or 8-bit microprocessor. Since all the functions such as display RAM, character generator, and liquid crystal driver, required for driving a dot-matrix liquid crystal display are internally provided on one chip, a minimal system can be interfaced with this controller/driver. A single HD44780U can display up to one 8-character line or two 8-character lines. The HD44780U character generator ROM is extended to generate 208 5x8 dot character fonts and 32 5x10 dot character fonts for a total of 240 different character fonts.