Advantages And Disadvantages Of A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)

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LCD
A liquid crystal display (LCD) is an optical device which is design into thin and flate panel this panel which is made up of a colour (or it can be a monochrome). Pixels filed with liquid crystals and a organized ahead of light source or reflector.
LCD develop the modern display technology because it compactness and flexibility. Now adays LCDs are used in many of the electronic appliances such as televisions , watches computers , laptops , mobile phones etc. the main and vital thing of the display is its liquid crystal coating or covering which is placed (sandwitched) between two polarized glasses.
Depending on the configuration of LCD THEY ARE AVAILABLE in different shapes and sizes . a 16*2 LCD means that it has mostly 2 rows and 16 …show more content…

they are also used in digital cameras .monitors and screen of laptops also make use of LCDs .they are also used in flat panel television . they are also used in portable electronic games .
BENEFITS OF LCDs
They have low cost and they are portable . they can be fabricated in a small area. They consume very less power. They display perfectly sharpe image with the natural rsolution of the panel .they give a large intensity of light whioch produes very bright images . there screens are flat perfectly . consme a little power and produces a little heat.
PINS OF LCD
All LCDs have same 14 pins (0-13) or 16 pins (0-15). All LCDS …show more content…

RS=0 selects command register.
RS=1 select data register
RW(read – write)
To read data from lcd RW=1
To write data to lcd RW=0
EN(unable)
When we select any of the register (command or data register) and set RW Then instruction is executed .instruction means the 8 bit data or command on data lines of liquid crystal display LCD and additional voltages is used for this to execute the instruction and the additional voltage is given to the lcd in the shape of EN SIGNAL SO TO EXECute the instruction then make EN=1 FOR SOME MILLISECONDS. And then we make it again EN=0 or ground. It should be noted that the data which we send to lcd may be in 1 of the following form
1 alphabets
2 digits
3 ASCII character
It must also be noted that lcd is used to display characters only hence it cannot be used to display an integer or floting poit number. The 8 data pins of the lcd carry only 8 bit ASCII code of the particular character of lcd . but we can also convert our data into character type carry array and can send them one by one to the lcd. Data is send to lcd using the following two modes
1 4 bit mode
2 8 bit mode
4-BIT

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