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LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen is an electronic display module and find a wide
range of applications. A 16x2 LCD display is very basic module and is very commonly
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A 16x2 LCD means it can display 16 characters per line and there are 2 such lines. In
this LCD each character is displayed in 5x7 pixel matrix. This LCD has two registers,
namely, Command and Data.
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The command register stores the command instructions given to the LCD. A command
is an instruction given to LCD to do a predefined task like initializing it, clearing its
screen, setting the cursor position, controlling display etc. The data register stores the
data to be displayed on the LCD. The data is the ASCII value of the character to be
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Pin Diagram:
Pin Description:
Pin
No
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Function
Name
Ground (0V)
Supply voltage 5V (4.7V 5.3V)
Contrast adjustment through a variable resistor
Ground
Vcc
V EE
Selects command register when low and data register
when high
Register
Select
Low to write to the register High to read from the
register
Sends data to data pins when a high to low pulse is
given
8bit data pins
Backlight V CC (5V)
Backlight Ground (0V)
Read/write
Enable
DB0
DB1
DB2
DB3
DB4
DB5
DB6
DB7
Led+
Led
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