General Description The RA8816 is a Dot-Matrix LCD Driver that supports both character and graphic mode. It built-in a 256Kbyte character ROM that consists of Chinese, English and ASCII fonts. The embedded 1170Byte display RAM supports up to 144x65 dots LCD panel. The RA8816 also provides a scrolling buffer memory for scrolling functions. It supports up, down, left and right scrolling features, and all of the scrolling is execute by hardware.
In character mode, the RA8816 supports Chinese BIG5 code or GB code. The system(MPU) does not need take a lot of time to show the Chinese font in graphic mode. It also provides small ASCII(8x8) and big ASCII(8x16) font for English character, Japanese, European and Latin. The RA8816 integrates much powerful hardware that including Contrast adjustment, 4x5 Key-Scan, eight General Purpose I/O and EL Backlight signals for EL driver.
The RA8816 is a high integration chip of LCD Controller. It reduce a lot of time for system develop, and save much cost for hardware system that due to it provides many features for related LCD display application.

FEATURE
■ Support both Character and Graphic Mode
■ Support 8080/6800 8/4-bit Parallel Interface, 3-Wire/4-Wire Serial Interface, IIC interface
■ Built-in 256KB Font ROM: Chinese, English, ASCII, Japanese, Latin, Latin-ext A, Latin-ext B
■ Support ASCII 8x8/8x16 Half Size Font, 16x16 Full Size Chinese Font
■ Support Maximum 144Seg x 65Com LCD Panel. 4 x 9 Chinese Fonts(16x16), or 8 x 18 English Fonts(8x8)
■ Built-in 1170 Bytes Display RAM and 450Byte Scrolling Buffer
■ Support 1/65 Duty, 1/9~1/5 Bias Panel
■ Built-in 2X~4X(Voltage Booster), Voltage Regulator, Voltage Follower
■ Eight General Purpose I/O
■ Built-in 4x5 Key-scan Circuit
■ Support Horizontal/Vertical Scrolling Functions
■ Built-in 256Byte SRAM for Create Font
■ Provide Signals for EL Driver
■ Provide 32-Steps Contrast Adjuster
■ Build-in RC Oscillator
■ Voltage Operation: VDD Æ 2.7~3.8V
■ Package: Gold Bump Die