---Original Message-----
From: Carey Pembroke <carey@TIPPETT.COM>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: PIC to video synchronization
>
> *NEWBIE DISCLAIMER*  I am very new to PIC programming, and more curious
>than productive at this point...
>
>What sorts of applications would video synchronization enable?  What have
>you done with it?
>
>I've studied lots of projects people have done using PICs, but have never
>seen any that deal with video.  I thought the PIC was too slow for that.
>
>Thanks!
>Carey
>

Well, with most instructions executed in a single cycle and up to 20 MHz
crystal you can get resolution as little as 200 nS, what is good even for
character generation (though I never did that, there are enough standard
characters generator ICs on a market). But video effects like video
switching, frames, splitters etc. - your imagination is a limit.

Gennady Palitsky
Jefferson Audio Video System
gennadyp@mainlink.net