Paul Christenson [N3EOP] <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Is the PIC fast enough to be useable as a character generator to
> overlay text/graphics on NTSC video?  About 10 chars/line is all I
> need; nothing fancy.  (I want to overlay date/time on a camera
> feed.)


Paul:

There's a lot of useful advice in previous replies to your message;
from what others are saying, it looks as though you can do it with a
PIC.

On the other hand, it'd be a whole lot simpler if you used a
microcontroller with TV character-generation hardware built-in.  If
you're open to other microcontrollers, try the 6805T-series from
Motorola.

-Andy

Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com
Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California
http://www.geopages.com/SiliconValley/2499