Possible Sacrilege

[Garth Wilson]

(10-27-2022 07:36 PM)Jeff_Birt Wrote:  

(10-27-2022 07:32 PM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  It's my understanding that having each controller handle only a small portion of the display improves the duty cycle on the various rows and columns, improving the contrast. I've never had a 40x8, but I've had 40x2's with excellent contrast, and 40x4's which are handled like two 40x2's in the same LCD module, again with excellent contrast.

Each row/column driver can only drive so many pixels, i.e. each one only has so much 'screen buffer' RAM inside. There is nothing more to it than that.

What I meant is that there's an added benefit, even if that's not why it was done that way.