Hi!
i just got a VFD cheap (Silverstone SST-FP54), that i think is made by Samsung originally (16T202DA1E datasheet). Now i don't have a parallel port on my motherboard so i need to make it serial, will the solution in this thread work? Or is _X7JAY7X_'s solution for some special LCDs only? I'm sorry if i'm asking stupid newbie questions, but i'm new to this stuff and i've searched a lot on the internet without success
Silverstone doesn't have any drivers for this display, and tells users to get LCDsmartie. Which means it should be HD44780 compatible? Atleast it should work with lcdsmartie once i get it connected to a serial port.
You should check the display's datasheet, if it says there that it is 100% HD44780 compatible then it will work.
PS: From what i've seen in that datasheet it looks good. All you have to check is the location in memory for the characters on the display. They are stated as x00 to x0F for the first line and x40 to x4F for the second line.
hi
Thanks for the answer! I will have to take a look in the datasheet some more, but then i will probably try this solution anyway. I was going to order Matrix Orbital X-Board before i found this, but how fun is that?
I will tell you how it went, maybe i'll help someone else by trying.
