MTV038 is designed for CRT/LCD monitor applications to display built-in characters or fonts onto monitor screens. The display operation occurs by transferring data and control information from the micro-controller to RAM through a serial data interface.

It can execute full-screen display automatically, as well as specific functions such as character background, bordering, shadowing, blinking, double height and width, font by font color control, character but ton boxes, frame positioning, frame size control by character height and row-to-row spacing, horizontal display resolution, full-screen erasing, fade-in/fade-out effect, windowing effect, shadowing on window and full-screen self test pattern generator.