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PCA8576F

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Product data sheet

Rev. 3 — 3 December 2014

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NXP Semiconductors

PCA8576F

Automotive 40 × 4 LCD driver

The storage arrangements described lead to extremely efficient data loading in cascaded

applications. When a series of display bytes are sent to the display RAM, automatic

wrap-over to the next PCA8576F occurs when the last RAM address is exceeded.

Subaddressing across device boundaries is successful even if the change to the next

device in the cascade occurs within a transmitted character.

The hardware subaddress must not be changed while the device is being accessed on the

I2C-bus interface.

7.3.7 Writing over the RAM address boundary

In all multiplex drive modes, depending on the setting of the data pointer, it is possible to

fill the RAM over the RAM address boundary. If the PCA8576F is part of a cascade the

additional bits fall into the next device that also generates the acknowledge signal. If the

PCA8576F is a single device or the last device in a cascade the additional bits will be

discarded and no acknowledge signal will be generated.

7.3.8 Bank selection

7.3.8.1

RAM bank switching

The PCA8576F includes a RAM bank switching feature in the static and 1:2 multiplex

drive modes. A bank can be thought of as one RAM row or a collection of RAM rows (see

Figure 9). The RAM bank switching gives the provision for preparing display information in

an alternative bank and to be able to switch to it once it is complete.

There are two banks; bank 0 and bank 1. Figure 9 shows the location of these banks

relative to the RAM map. Input and output banks can be set independently from one

another with the Bank-select command (see Table 10 on page 7). Figure 10 shows the

concept.

Fig 9.

RAM banks in static and multiplex driving mode 1:2

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