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Introduction
Welcome to the LCD Library for Arduino and Chipkit. It is a derivate of the original LiquidCrystal Library as sourced in the Arduino SDK. It has been developed to be compatible with the current LiquidCrystal library, its performance is almost 5 times faster and fully extendable if need be.
It supports most Hitachi HD44780 based LCDs, or compatible, connected to any project using: 4, 8
wire parallel interface, I2C IO port expander (native I2C and bit bang) and Shift Regiter.
It currently supports 4 types of connections:
- 4 bit parallel LCD interface
 - 8 bit parallel LCD interface
 - I2C IO bus expansion board with the PCF8574* I2C IO expander ASIC such as I2C LCD extra IO.
 - ShiftRegister adaptor board as described Shift Register project home or in the HW configuration described below, 2 and 3 wire configurations supported.
 - ShiftRegister 3 wire latch adaptor board as described ShiftRegister 3 Wire Home
 - Support for 1 wire shift register ShiftRegister 1 Wire
 - I2C bus expansion using general purpose IO lines.
 
How do I get set up?
- Please refer to the project's wiki
 
Contributors
The library has had the invaluable contribution of:
- piccaso - Florian Fida - Flo, thanks for testing and improving the SR library, initial version of the 1 wire interface and speed improvements.
 - B. Perry - bperrybap@opensource.billsworld.billandterrie.com, with his thoughtful contribution, speed improvements and development support for the SR2W library.
 - Adrian Piccioli, with his contribution to the i2c GPIO support.
 - todbot Tod E. Kurt for the softwarei2cmaster library.
 
Contribution guidelines
- Writing tests
 - Code review
 - Help out with bug fixing
 - Setup a project logo
 - Write new drivers to support more LCDs.
 
Who do I talk to?
- Repo owner or admin
 - For SoftI2CMaster latest versions, updates and support, please refer to SoftI2CMaster
 
