A Liquid crystal display (LCD) is a flat display that uses the light modulating properties of liquid display.They are common in consumer devices such as video players, gaming devices, clocks,telephones,computers,calculators etc.
A (16x2) LCD panel consists of 16 coulums and 2 rows.It can show upto 16 characters in 2 lines.
- Operating Voltage: 4.7V – 5.3V
- Current consumption: 1 mA without backlight
- Alphanumeric LCD display module, meaning can display alphabets and numbers
- Consists of two rows and each row can print 16 characters
- Each character is built by a 5×8 pixel box
- Can work on both 8-bit and 4-bit mode