Interfacing LCD with Starter 8051

In this tutorial we will see how to interface different character LCD with Explore Starter 8051.

Basic

The added advantage of this Starter 8051 board is, it has on board LCD breakout for character LCD. It's great escape from making 10+ connections to LCD on breadboard. We can able to interface 16X1, 16X2 and 20X4 LCD on this existing set up. For basics on LCD refer the 8051 LCD tutorial.

Code

Let us write the code for LCD 16X1 followed by LCD 16X2 and LCD 20X4 with minimum changes in the each code.

LCD 16X2

LCD 20X4

Demo