the present invention discloses an integrated circuit driver chip for electroluminescent device , including an el display - data - control block and an el display - segment - driver block , wherein said dcb stores the data for display and generates data - control - pulses for the el segment display ; and said sdb receives the data from the dcb and then drives the el segments to display the desired information in real - time . this integrated circuit driver chip is suitable to be used to control and drive a multiple segment el display . the applications of the ic include , but are not limited to , the display alphanumeric digits and image information . by cascading multiple ic driver chips together , it is possible to enlarge the number of display segments .