You need to be a little more specific, since your post covers a range of devices with different standards.
Are you interested only in LCD's with driver chips onboard, bare glass LCD's, or both?
Are you working with a microcontroller and wish to interface to an LCD?
Which family of microcontroller?
Are you wishing to use 4 or 8 bit?
Info, info, info!
Here's something to get you started, which covers 8051 & PIC:
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And another:
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And here are a few related links from Nigel Goodwin's PIC tutorials:
HTH.