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Integrated Circuit Display

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The integrated circuit display is a vacuum fluorescent (VF) display that contains the odometer and trip odometer on base clusters and the message center display on message center clusters. The odometer information is transmitted from the PCM over the communication network to the instrument cluster (IC). The instrument cluster (IC) displays the appropriate message(s)/display upon receipt of the data received.