The serial enabled LCD allows you to control a parallel based LCD over a single-wire serial interface.
Included in this product is a 16x2 LCD connected to our serial backpack.
The backpack, based around a PIC16LF88, takes a TTL serial input and prints the characters it receives onto the LCD.
The installed firmware allows for a number of special commands so you can clear the screen, adjust the backlight brightness, turn the display on/off, and more.


Communication with SerLCD requires 3.3V TTL serial at a default baud rate of 9600bps (8-N-1).
You can adjust the baud to any standard rate between 2400 and 38400bps. The power, ground and RX pins are all broken out to a 3.5mm pitch screw terminal.


SerLCD has the ability to dim the backlight to conserve power if needed. There is also a potentiometer on the backpack to adjust the contrast.


Note: Though the silkscreen may say '5V', this is a 3.3v Serial LCD. Connect to a 3.3v power source.

 

Features:

• PIC 16LF88 utilizes onboard UART for greater communication accuracy
• Greater processing speed at 10MHz
• Incoming buffer stores up to 80 characters
• Backlight transistor can handle up to 1A
• Pulse width modulation of backlight allows direct control of backlight brightness and current consumption
• All surface mount design allows a backpack that is half the size of the original
• Faster boot-up time
• Boot-up display can be turned on/off  via firmware