STE2004
3.7 Temperature Coefficients
As the viscosity, and therefore the contrast, of the LCD are subject to change with temperature, there's
the need to vary the LCD Voltage with temperature. STE2004 provides the possibility to change the VLCD
in a linear fashion against temperature with eight different Temperature Coefficient selectable through T2,
T1 and T0 bits. Only four of them are available through basic instruction set.
Table 5.
NAME
TC1
TC0
Value
Unit
TC0
0
0
-0.0· 10-3
1/ °C
TC2
0
1
-0.7 · 10-3
1/°C
TC3
1
0
-1.05· 10-3
1/°C
TC6
1
1
-2.1 · 10-3
1/°C
Table 6.
NAME
T2
T1
T0
Value
Unit
TC0
0
0
0
-0.0· 10-3
1/ °C
TC1
0
0
1
-0.35 · 10-3
1/°C
TC2
0
1
0
-0.7 · 10-3
1/°C
TC3
0
1
1
-1.05· 10-3
1/°C
TC4
1
0
0
-1.4 · 10-3
1/°C
TC5
1
0
1
-1.75· 10-3
1/°C
TC6
1
1
0
-2.1 · 10-3
1/°C
TC7
1
1
1
-2.3· 10-3
1/°C
Figure 7.
VLCD
B
A2
A0 + B
A1
A1
00h 01h 02h 03h 04h 05h …. 7Ch 7Dh 7Eh 7Fh 00h 01h 02h 03h 04h 05h …. 7Ch 7Dh 7Eh 7Fh 00h 01h 02h 03h 04h 05h …. 7Ch 7Dh 7Eh 7Fh
PRS = [0;0]
PRS = [0;1]
PRS = [1;0]
VO
Finally, the VLCD voltage at a given (T) temperature can be calculated as:
VLCD(T) = VLCDo · [1 + (T-To) · TC]
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