1999 Mar 02 3
Philips Semiconductors Product specification
LCD controllers/drivers PCF2119x
1 FEATURES
• Single-chip LCD controller/driver
• 2-line display of up to 16 characters + 160 icons, or
1-line display of up to 32 characters + 160 icons
• 5 × 7 character format plus cursor; 5 × 8 for kana
(Japanese) and user defined symbols
• Icon mode: reduced current consumption while
displaying icons only
• Icon blink function
• On-chip:
– Generation of LCD supply voltage, independent of
V
DD
, programmable by instruction (external supply
also possible)
– Temperature compensation of on-chip generated
V
LCD
: −8to−12 mV/K at 5.0 V (programmable by
instruction)
– Generation of intermediate LCD bias voltages
– Oscillator requires no external components
(external clock also possible).
• Display Data RAM: 80 characters
• Character Generator ROM: 240, 5 × 8 characters
• Character Generator RAM: 16, 5 × 8 characters;
4 characters used to drive 160 icons, 8 characters used
if icon blink feature is used in application
• 4 or 8-bit parallel bus and 2-wire I2C-bus interface
• CMOS compatible
• 18 row and 80 column outputs
• Multiplex rates 1 : 18 (for normal operation), 1 : 9 (for
single line operation) and 1 : 2 (for icon only mode)
• Uses common 11 code instruction set (extended)
• Logic supply voltage range, VDD− VSS= 2.2 to 4.0 V
(up to 5.5 V if external V
LCD
is used); chip may be driven
with two battery cells
• Display supply voltage range, V
LCD
− VSS= 2.2 to 6.5 V
• Very low current consumption (20 to 200 µA):
– Icon mode: <25 µA
– Power-down mode: <2 µA.
1.1 Note
Icon mode is used to save current. When only icons are
displayed, a much lower operating voltage V
LCD
can be
used and the switching frequency of the LCD outputs is
reduced. In most applications it is possible to use VDD as
V
LCD
.
2 APPLICATIONS
• Telecom equipment
• Portable instruments
• Point-of-sale terminals.
3 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The PCF2119x is a low power CMOS LCD controller and
driver, designed to drive a dot matrix LCD display of 2-line
by 16 or 1-line by 32 characters with 5 × 8 dot format.
All necessary functions for the display are provided in a
single chip, including on-chip generation of LCD bias
voltages, resulting in a minimum of external components
and lower system current consumption. The PCF2119x
interfaces to most microcontrollers via a 4 or 8-bit bus or
via the 2-wire I
2
C-bus. The chip contains a character
generator and displays alphanumeric and kana
(Japanese) characters. The letter ‘x’ in PCF2119x
characterizes the built-in character set. Various character
sets can be manufactured on request.
4 ORDERING INFORMATION
TYPE
NUMBER
PACKAGE
NAME DESCRIPTION VERSION
PC2119RU/2 − chip with bumps in tray −
PC2119SU/2 − chip with bumps in tray −
PC2119VU/2 − chip with bumps in tray −