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17 years ago

driving character lcd

Hi all. I am wondering how to drive the character lcd on the Cyclone III development kit. I can understand as far as driving a seven segment display. I assume it is almost the same concept i.e. so...
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17 years ago

Usually the LCD is driven by a CPU and some software written in C.

You could control the LCD from pure HDL instead but you'll have to handle the communication protocol yourself, probably using a state machine.