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SC16312(文件编号：S&CIC0208) 1/4 to 1/11 Duty VFD Controller
Features
● Logic voltage:5V
● High-voltage output:VDD-30Vmax
● Multiple display (11-segment & 11-digit to 16-segment &4-digit)
● 6×4 matrix key scanning
● 8 steps dimmer circuit
● 4 LED output ports
● 4-bit general purpose input port
● No external resistors necessary for driver output (provides PMOS open-drain and pull-low resistor
output)
● Serial interface with MCU (CLK, CS, DI, DO)

Applications
● Consumer products panel function control
● Other similar application panel function control
● Industrial measuring instrument panel unction control

General Description
SC16312 is a VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display) controller driver that is driven on a 1/4 to 1/11
duty factor. It consists of 11 segment output lines, 6 grid output lines, 5 segment/grid output drives,4 LED
output ports, a control circuit, a display memory, and a key scancircuit.
Serial data inputs to the SC16312 through a three-line serial interface. This VFD controller/driver is
ideal as a peripheral device for an MCU.

Block Diagram

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SC16312(文件编号：S&CIC0208) 1/4 to 1/11 Duty VFD Controller

Pin Assignment

LED0
LED1
LED2
LED3
OSC
VSS

VDD
G0
G1
G2
G3
44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34
SW0 1 33 G4
SW1 2 32 G5
SW2 3 31 S15/G6
SW3 4 30 S14/G7
D0 5 SC16312 29 S13/G8
DI 6 28 S12/G9
VSS 7 - 44 QFP 27 VEE C

CLK 8 26 S11/G10
CS 9 25 S10
K0 10 24 S9
K1 11 23 S8
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
K2
K3

VDD

S0/K0
S1/K1
S2/K2
S3/K3
S4/K4
S6
S5/K5
S7

Pin Description
Pin No. Pin Name I/O Description
1~4 SW0~SW3 I 4-bit general purpose input port
Output serial data at the falling edge of the shift clock, B Starting
5 DO O
from low order bit. This is an NMOS open-drain Output pin.
Input serial data at the rising edge of the shift clock, starting from
6 DI I
the low order bit.
7,43 VSS — Power supply, ground
Reads serial data at the rising edge ,and outputs data at the Falling
8 CLK I
edge.
Initializes serial interface at the rising or falling edge of the
SC16312. Then it waits to receive a command. Data input After
9 CS I CS has fallen is processed as a command. While command data is
processed, current processing is stopped, and the serial interface
is initialized. While CS is high, CLK is ignored.
Keying data input to these pins is latched at the end ofA the display
10 ~13 K0~K3 I
Title
cycle.
14, 38 VDD — Posistive power supply
Size Number Revision
Segment or key source output pins (dual function). This is PMOS
15~20 S0/K0~S5/K5 OB
Date:
open-drain
2-Apr-2003
and pull-low resistor output.
Sheet of
File: E:\超晶规格图
Segment or key source output pins
\3.12\SC16312.Ddb Drawn By : (dual function).This is PMOS
21~25 S0/K0~S5/K5 5 O 6
open-drain and pull-low resistor output.
Pin No. Pin Name I/O Description

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Segment or Grid driver output pins. These pins are selectable for
26, 28~31 S11/G10~S15/G6 O segment or grid driving. This is PMOS open-drain and pull-low
resistor output.
27 VEE — VFD power supply
Grid driver output pins (Grid only). This is PMOS open-drain and
37~32 G0~G5 O
pull-low resistor output.
42~39 LED0~LED3 O LED driver output ports. This is a CMOS output pin
44 OSC I Connected to an external resistor or an RC oscillator circuit.

Approximate internal connections

Absolute Maximum Ratings

Supply Voltage ------------------ -0.3v to 5.5v
Input Voltage ------------------- vss-0.3v to VDD+0.3v
Operating Temperature ----------- -25℃ to 75℃
Storage Temperature ------------- -50℃ to 125℃

Note:These are stress ratings only. Stresses exceeding the range specified under “Absolute Maximum
Ratings” may cause substantial damage to the device. Function of this device at other conditions
beyond those listed in the specification is not implied and prolonged exposure to extreme
conditions may affect device reliability.

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D. C. Characteristics
Test Conditions
Symbol Parameter Min. Typ. Max. Unit
VDD Conditions
VDD Logic Supply Voltage - - 4.5 5 5.5 V
VEE VFD Supply Voltage - - 0 - VDD-30 V
fOSC Output Pull-low Resistor 5V ROSS=51kΩ 350 500 650 KHz
RPL Output Pull-low Resistor 5V Driver output 50 100 150 KΩ

No load,
IDD Operating Current 5V - - 5 MA
VFD display off

Vo=VDD-30V
IOL Driver Leakage Current 5V - - -10 UA
VFD driver off

VOL=1V
IOL1 LED Sink Current 5V 20 - - mA
LED0~LED3

VOH=0.9VDD
IOH1 LED Source Current 5V -1 - - mA
LED0~LED3
VOH=VDD-2V
Segment/Key Source
IOH21 5V S0/K0~S5/K5, -3 - - mA
Current
S6~S10
VoH=VDD-2V
Segment/Grid Source
IoH22 5V G0~G5, -15 - - mA
Current
S11/G10~S1/G6

IoL3 DO Sink Current 5V VOL=0.4V 4 - - mA

VIH “H” Input Voltage - - 0.7VDD - VDD V

VIL “L” Input Voltage - - 0 - 0.3VDD V
High-level Output LED0~LED3,
VoH1 5V 0.9VDD - VDD V
Voltage IoH1=-1mA
Low-level Output LED0~LED3,
VoL1 5V 0 - 1 V
Voltage IoL1=20MA
Low-level Output
VoL2 5V DO, IOL2=4mA 0 - 0.4 V
Voltage

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A. C. Characteristics
Test Conditions
Symbol Parameter Min. Typ. Max. Unit
VDD Conditions
tPHL 5V CL→DO - - 300 ns
Propagation Delay Time
tPLH 5V CL=15pF,RL=10kΩ - - 100 ns
CL=300PF,
tr1 5V - - 2 us
S0~S10
Rise TIme CL=300PF,
Tr2 5V Go~G5, - - 0.5 us
S11/G10~S15/G6
tf Fall Time 5V CL=300pF, Sn, Gn - - 120 us
tmax Maximum Clock Frequency 5V Duty=50% 1 - - MHz
Ci Input Capacitance 5V - - - 15 pF
tcw Clock Pulse Width 5V - 400 - - ns
tsw Strobe Pulse Width 5V - 1 - - ns
tSU Data Setup Time 5V - 100 - - ns
th Data Hold Time 5V - 100 - - ns
CLK rising edge to
tcs Clock-Strobe Time 5V 1 - - us
CS rising edge
CLK rising edge to
tw Wait Time 5V 1 - - us
CS rising edge

Functional Description
Display RAM and display mode
The static display RAM is organized into 22×8 bits and stores the data transmitted from an external
device to the SC16312 through a serial interface. The contents of the RAM are directly mapped to the
contents of the VFD driver. Data in the RAM can be accessed through the data setting, address setting and
display control commands. It is assigned addresses in 8-bitunit as follows:
S0 ~ S3 S4 ~ S7 S8 ~ S11 S12 ~ S15

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Dimming Control
SC16312 porvides 8-step dimmer function on display by controlling the 3-bit binary command code.
The full pulse width of grid signal is divides into 16 uniform sections by PWM(pulse width
modulation )technology.
The 16 uniform sections available form 8 steps dimmer via 3-bit binary code. The 8-step dimmer
includes 1/16, 2/16, 4/16, 10/16, 11/16, 12/16, 13/16, and 14/16. The 1/16 pulse width indicates minimum
lightness. The 14/16 pulse width represents maximum lightness. The 14/16 pulse width represents
maximum lightness. (Refer to the display control command).

Key matrix and key-input data storage RAM

The key matrix scans the series key states at each level of the key strobe signal
(S0/K0~S5/K5)output of the :SC16312. The key strobe signal outputs are time-multiplexed signals from
S0/K0~S5/K5. The states of inputs K0~K3 are sampled by strobe signal S0/K0~S5/K5 and latched into
the register.
The key matrix is made up of a 6x4 matrix, as shown below.

Detail

The data of each key is stored as illustrated below. And is read with the read command, starting form
the least significant bit.

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LED port
The LED port belongs to the CMOS output configuration.
Data is written to the LED port with the write command, starting from the least port’s least
significant bit. In out application (see application circuits). The user adopts an internal NMOS device to a
driver LED component by connecting VDD. When a bit of this port is 0, the corresponding LED lights;
when the bit is 1,the LED turns off. The data of bits 5 through 8 are ignored.

SW data
SC16312 provides an extra 4-bit general input port. The SW data is provided with available binary
code. The SW data is read with the read command. Starting from the least significant bit. Bits 5 through 8
of the SW data are 0.

Commands
Commands set the display mode and status of the VFD driver.
The first 1 byte input to the SC16312 through the DI pin after the CS pin has fallen, is regarded as a
command. If CS is set high while commands/data are transmitted. Serial communication is initialized,
and the commands/data being transmitted are not valid (however, the commands/data previously
transmitted remains valid).

• Display mode setting commands

These commands initialize the SC16312 and select the number of segments and the number of grids
(1/4~1/11 duty, 11 segments to 16 segments).
When these commands are executed, the display is forcibly turned off, and key scanning is selected,
nothing happens.

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• Data setting commands
These commands set the data write and data read modes.

• Address setting commands

These commands set the address of the display memory.

If address 16H or higher is set, data is ignored until a valid address is set.

• Display control commands

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Timing Diagrams

Key scanning and display timing

Note: n=0~5
T=1/16T
T: pulse width of segment signal is decided by oscillator frequency
One cycle of key scanning consists of one frame.

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Serial communication format
Reception (command/data write)

Transmission (data read)

DO must be sure to connect an external pull-high resistor to this pin (1kΩ to 10kΩ).
Note: When data is read, a wait time “tw” of 1 μs is necessary.

Updating display memory by incrementing address

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Updating specific addresses

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Application Circuits
R6

R7

R8

R9

D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6

S0～S5

VDD

K0 K1 K2 K3 S0/K0 S1/K1 S2/K2 S3/K3 S4/K4 S5/K5

VDD VFD Ef
5 SEGMENTS
Rosc
S6～S10
OSC 5 Grids/Segments
CS
IC:SC16312 S11/G10～S15/G6
6 Grids
CLK G0～G5
MCU
DI - 25V
VEE
D0
LED0 LED1 LED2 LED3 SW0 SW1 SW2 SW3 VSS

R1 R2 R3 R4 R5

VDD

VDD

Note: Rosc=51kΩ for oscillator resistor

R1=1~10 kΩ for external pull-high resistor
R2~R5=750 Ω ~1.2 Ω
R6~R9=10 kΩ for external pull-low resistor
D1~D6=1N4001
Ef=Fiament voltage for VFD

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