PCA8576F
NXP Semiconductors
Automotive 40 × 4 LCD driver
7. Functional description
7.1 Commands of PCA8576F
The commands available to the PCA8576F are defined in Table 5.
Table 5.
Definition of PCA8576F commands
Operation code
Command
Bit
Reference
7
6
1
0
1
1
1
5
4
3
2
1
0
[1]
mode-set
C
C
C
C
C
0
-
E
B
M[1:0]
Table 7
Table 8
Table 9
Table 10
Table 11
load-data-pointer
device-select
bank-select
blink-select
P[5:0]
1
1
1
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
A[1:0]
I
0
O
AB
BF[1:0]
[1] Not used.
All available commands carry a continuation bit C in their most significant bit position as
shown in Figure 3.
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PVDꢇꢈꢈ
Fig 3. Format of command byte
When this bit is set logic 1, it indicates that the next byte of the transfer to arrive will also
represent a command. If this bit is set logic 0, it indicates that the command byte is the
last in the transfer. Further bytes will be regarded as display data (see Table 6).
Table 6.
C bit description
Bit
Symbol Value
Description
continue bit
7
C
0
last control byte in the transfer; next byte will be regarded
as display data
1
control bytes continue; next byte will be a command too
PCA8576F
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Product data sheet
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