Unless you have an LCD that has a built-in SPI or I2C interface, then you need that chip, an I/O expansion port or something to interface to a parallel LCD.

If you do have a display with built-in synchronous interface(s), then we'd need to know which one it is. Because I don't think there's any kind of standard for that.

At any rate, with PBP 2.60's new ARRAYWRITE command.
Sending data to SPI, whether it's SHIFTOUT or the MSSP, just got a whole lot easier.
And I doubt any example you find on the net will include the new commands.

Best to write it from scratch.
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