• Single-chip LCD controller and driver

• 40 segment drives:

• Up to twenty 7-segment alphanumeric characters 

• Up to ten 14-segment alphanumeric characters

• Any graphics of up to 160 elements 

• Versatile blinking modes

• No external components required 

  (even in multiple device applications) 

• Selectable backplane drive configuration: 

   static, 2, 3, or 4 backplane multiplexing

• Selectable display bias configuration: static, 1⁄ 2, or 1⁄ 3 

• Internal LCD bias generation with voltage-follower buffers

• 40 x 4-bit RAM for display data storage

• Auto-incremented display data loading 

  across device subaddress boundaries 

• Display memory bank switching 

   in static and duplex drive modes

• Wide logic LCD supply range:

• From 2 V for low-threshold LCDs 

• Up to 6 V for high-threshold twisted nematic LCDs 

• Low power consumption 

• May be cascaded for large LCD applications 

  (up to 2560 elements possible) 

• No external components required 

• Separate or combined LCD and logic supplies 

• Optimized pinning for plane wiring in both

   single and multiple PCF8576C applications 

• Power-saving mode for extremely low power 

   consumption in battery-operated and telephone applications