Overview

The LC74788, LC74788M, and LC74788JM are on screen display controller CMOS ICs that display characters and patterns on the TV screen under microprocessor control. These ICs support 12 × 18 dot characters and can display 12 lines by 24 characters of text.

Features

• Display format: 24 characters by 12 rows (Up to 288 characters)

• Character format: 12 (horizontal) × 18 (vertical) dots

• Character sizes: Three sizes each in the horizontal and vertical directions

• Characters in font: 128 (128 characters, one spacing character, and one transparent spacing character)

• Initial display positions: 64 horizontal positions and 64 vertical positions

• Blinking: Specifiable in character units

• Blinking types: Two periods supported: About 1.0 second and about 0.5 second

• Blanking: Over the whole font (12 × 18 dots)

• Background color: 8 colors (internal synchronization mode): 2fSC and 4fSC

• Line background color 

— Can be set for 3 lines

— Line background color: 8 colors (internal synchronization mode): 2fSC and 4fSC

• External control input: 8-bit serial input format

• On-chip sync separator circuit

• Video outputs - NTSC, PAL, PAL-N, PAL-M, NTSC 4.43, and PAL60 format composite video outputs

• Package

— 24-pin plastic DIP-24S (300 mil)

— 24-pin plastic MFP-24 (375 mil)

— 24-pin plastic MFP-24S (300 mil)