NXP Semiconductors
PCA8538
Automotive 102 x 9 Chip-On-Glass LCD segment driver
8.9 Possible display configurations
The display configurations possible with the PCA8538 depend on the number of active
backplanes outputs required. A selection of possible display configurations is given in
Table 30.
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Table 30. Selection of possible display configurations
Number of
Backplanes
Icons
Digits/Characters
7-segment[1]
14-segment[2]
9
918
114
57
8
816
102
51
6
612
76
38
4
408
51
25
2
204
25
12
1
102
12
6
Dot matrix:
segments/
elements
918 dots (9 102)
816 dots (8 102)
612 dots (6 102)
408 dots (4 102)
204 dots (2 102)
102 dots (1 102)
[1] 7 segment display has 8 segments/elements including the decimal point.
[2] 14 segment display has 16 segments/elements including decimal point and accent dot.
All the display configurations in Table 30 can be implemented in the typical systems
shown in Figure 12 and Figure 13.
PCA8538
Product data sheet
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Rev. 4 — 26 September 2014
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