- Single-chip LCD controller and driver
- 40 segment drives:
- Up to twenty 7-segment numeric characters
- Up to ten 14-segment alphanumeric characters
- Any graphics of up to 160 elements
- Versatile blinking modes
- No external components required (even in multiple device applications)
- Selectable backplane drive configuration: static or 2, 3, 4 backplane multiplexing
- Selectable display bias configuration: static, 1/2 or 1/3
- Internal LCD bias generation with voltage-follower buffers
- 40 x 4-bit RAM for display data storage
- Auto-incremented display data loading across device subaddress boundaries
- Display memory bank switching in static and duplex drive modes
- Wide logic LCD supply range:
- From 2 V for low-threshold LCDs
- Up to 6 V for guest-host LCDs and high-threshold twisted nematic LCDs
- Low power consumption
- May be cascaded for large LCD applications (up to 2560 segments possible)
- No external components
- Separate or combined LCD and logic supplies
- Optimized pinning for plane wiring in both and multiple PCF8576C applications
- Power-saving mode for extremely low power consumption in battery-operated and telephone applications