Grant Beattie wrote:
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The LCD connection schemes I've seen are all bit-bang anyway, so they are not that dramatically different (I guess except those people that try the shift register route, but they are in the vast minority from what I can see).

You can also connect the LCD to the 8051 external memory bus. The development boards we used at university were made like that, and the NMI development board I sometimes use for experiments is made the same way. And in that case (or the shift register case) the code is different.

Best regards,

Mikkel C. Simonsen