Sixteen-segment display

The individual segments of a sixteen-segment display
Arabic numerals, letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and punctuation on a typical 16-segment display

A sixteen-segment display (SISD) is a type of display based on sixteen segments that can be turned on or off to produce a graphic pattern. It is an extension of the more common seven-segment display, adding four diagonal and two vertical segments and splitting the three horizontal segments in half. Other variants include the fourteen-segment display which does not split the top or bottom horizontal segments, and the twenty-two-segment display[1] that allows lower-case characters with descenders.

Often a character generator is used to translate 7-bit ASCII character codes to the 16 bits that indicate which of the 16 segments to turn on or off.[2]

  1. ^ "DL-3422 4-digit 22-segment alphanumeric Intelligent Display™ preliminary data sheet". Internet Archive. Litronix 1982 Optoelectronics Catalog. p. 82. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  2. ^ Application Note 3212: Driving 16-Segment Displays Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, Maxim Integrated, 2004.