General Description
The MIC10938 and MIC10939 Dot Matrix Display Controller is a two-chip MOS/LSI general purpose display controller system designed to interface to dot matrix displays (vacuum fluorescent or LED).
The two-chip set will drive displays with up to 35 anodes (dots) and up to 20 grids (characters) plus a cursor. The chips can be cascaded to drive larger displays of as many as 80 characters.

FEATUREs
• 20-character display driver cascadable to 80 characters
• Standard 5 ×7 character font
• Separate cursor driver output
• Direct drive capability for vacuum-fluorescent displays
• 128 ×35 PLA provides segment decoding for full 96-character ASCII set, plus 32 special characters
• Serial or parallel data input for 8-bit display and control characters
• 40-pin DIP or 44-pin PLCC