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ATmega-8 based serialLCD module

ATmega-8 based serialLCD module (Also provided my ready-to-use Arduino library & firmware sources) In every electronic system, it is necessary to provide information in visual form for convenient user interface. So the display technology is one of the important subsystem in every electronic system like computer, cell phones etc.. If any kind of display is used in embedded control system then it will be very helpful to provide a human readable output. It can be also used for debugging for system designers. The most commonly used displays in embedded systems are as follow: LED LCD TFT Out of this displays, the LED displays are easy to handle, but it requires large amount of input current & multiplexing to control each LED in the panel. TFT display provides good resolution & colorful graphics, but the main disadvantage is its cost & it requires a special kind of display controller / graphical processing unit to handle complex mathematical calcul