PCF2116 family
LCD controller / drivers
Rev. 05.01  20 July 2007 Product data sheet
1. General description
The PCF2116 is a low-power CMOS LCD controller and driver, designed to drive a split 
screen dot matrix LCD display of 1 or 2 lines by 24 characters or 2 or 4 lines by 
12 characters with 5  8 dot format. All necessary functions for the display are provided in 
a single chip, including on-chip generation of LCD bias voltages, resulting in a minimum of 
external components and lower system power consumption. The chip contains a 
character generator and displays alphanumeric and kana (Japanese) characters. The 
PCF2116 interfaces to most microcontrollers using a 4 or 8-bit bus or via the 2-wire 
2
I C-bus. To allow partial V shutdown the ESD protection system of the SCL and SDA 
DD
pins does not use a diode connection to V .
DD
The x in PCF2116x represents a specific letter code for a character set in the character 
generator ROM (CGROM). The different character sets currently available are specified 
by the letters A, C, and G (see Figure 5, Figure 6 and Figure 7). Other character sets are 
available on request.
Remark: The notation for hexadecimal numbers used in this datasheet is consistent with 
NXP house style and uses a suffix h following the number e.g. 00h.
2. Features
 Single chip LCD controller/driver
 1 or 2-line display of up to 24 characters per line, or 2 or 4 lines of up to 12 characters 
per line
 5  7 character format plus cursor; 5  8 for kana (Japanese syllabary) and user 
defined symbols
 On chip:
 generation of LCD supply voltage (external supply also possible)
 generation of intermediate LCD bias voltages
 oscillator requires no external components (external clock also possible)
 Display data RAM: 80 characters
 Character generator ROM: 240 characters
 Character generator RAM: 16 characters
2
 4 or 8-bit parallel bus or 2-wire I C-bus interface
 CMOS/TTL compatible
 32 row, 60 column outputs
 MUX rates 1:32 and 1:16
 Uses common 11 code instruction set
 Logic supply voltage range, V  V : 2.5 to 6 V
DD SS
 Display supply voltage range, V  V : 3.5 to 9 V
DD LCDPCF2116 family
NXP Semiconductors
LCD controller / drivers
 Low power consumption
2
 I C-bus address: 011101 SA0.
3. Applications
 Telecom equipment.
 Portable instruments.
 Point-of-sale terminals.
4. Ordering information
 
Table 1. Ordering information
Type number Package
Name Description Version
PCF2116xU - chip in tray -
PCF2116xU/2 - chip with gold bumps in tray -
PCF2116xU/10 - wafer sawn and delivered on film frame carrier (FFC) -
PCF2116xU/12 - wafer sawn with gold bumps and delivered on film frame carrier (FFC) -
[1] The letter x in the type number represents the letter of the required built-in character set: A, C or G.
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