[Coco] LCD panel

[James Dessart]

On 21-Aug-04, at 9:44 AM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> The Oki MSM6522 is a specific chip designed to drive monchrome
> graphic LCD panels. It is  not a microprocessor in the sense of the
> 6809 etc.
>
> It is an interface chip that takes data from the say the 6809 and
> feeds it to the display. From a properly selected clock, it will
> generate all the s yncs and pixel clocks and output it to the LCD
> serially,  in 4 bit mode or 8 bit mode. It is the big brother of the
> 44780 LCD driver chips.

I've been trying to find a source for single quantities of one like it 
(it's been end of lifed by Oki) but Digikey doesn't seem to carry any 
such thing. I imagine a dedicated processor should be able to generate 
all the syncs and the like, right?

James