10938P-50

Cascadable 20-character display driver expandable to 80 characters.

Utilizes a standard 5x7 character font.

Provides a separate output for cursor driver control.

Enables direct drive functionality for vacuum-fluorescent displays.

Incorporates a 128x35 PLA for segment decoding, allowing for the full 96-character ASCII set and 32 special characters.

Offers the choice of serial or parallel data input for both 8-bit display and control characters.

Available in a 40-pin DIP or 44-pin PLCC package.

The MIC10938 and MIC10939 Dot Matrix Display Controller is a two-chip MOS/LSI general purpose display controller system designed to interface to dot matrix displays (vacuum fluorescent or LED).

The two-chip set will drive displays with up to 35 anodes (dots) and up to 20 grids (characters) plus a cursor. The chips can be cascaded to drive larger displays of as many as 80 characters.

An internal PLA-type decoder provides character decoding and dot pattern generation for the full 96-character ASCII set and an additional 32 special characters.