A typical LCD consists of liquid crystal material with transparent electrodes and polarizing filters. Applying voltage across the liquid crystal layer allows light to pass through in varying amounts.

This article is excerpted from Section 21 of “Analog Circuit Design: Volume 3 – The Design Note Collection,” (ISBN: 978-0-12-800001-4), edited by Bob Dobkin and John Hamburger of Linear Technology ...

Microchip has added an autonomous LCD driver to its list of MCU peripherals, that can change the display while the CPU sleeps to save power. “Most display applications involve a few common animations ...

Ordering a PCB with mistakes sucks. We should help each other avoid such mistakes – especially newcomers. One of the best ways to avoid these mistakes, especially if it’s your first one, is to get a ...

CCFL backlights are the most common backlight technology and are used in displays ranging from 5.7 to 23 in. or more diagonal. They can have from one to 24 or more lamps mounted along the edge of the ...

Consumer demand for higher audiovisual quality is driving the evolution of technologies behind LCD displays. Specifically, mini-LEDs, with their superior contrast and color gradation performance, have ...

PRINCETON, NJ, USA/GISTEL, BELGIUM/TOKYO, JAPAN, June 8, 2005 - Sarnoff Europe (www.sarnoffeurope.com) and Seiko Epson Corporation (www.epson.co.jp/e) today jointly ...

The ML610400 series is high performance CMOS 8-bit microcontrollers equipped with LAPIS Semiconductor’s original RISC 8bit CPU ” U8 Core “. The CPU core is capable of efficient instruction execution ...

As microcontrollers become more and more common, we see more ways to get a lot of performance out of one chip. A great example of this was the ESP8266 which was originally seen as a cheap WiFi card ...

Epson is aiming at vehicle instrument clusters with a greyscale segment LCD driver for up to 368 segments. “The amount of information that needs to be shown on instrumental cluster displays is ...