Doing some 'back of the envelope' calculations, you could use an 18C running
at 10 MIPS to get about 120 horizontal pixels on a VGA monitor.

This looks like an application for an Ubicom SX to me. (Did I really say
that?).

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

----- Original Message -----
From: Herbert Graf <mailinglist@FARCITE.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [PIC] how to connect a PIC to a VGA screen


> > just wondering if there is a way to create a stand-alone
> > VGA controller with a PIC. What do I need to display some
> > graphics, maybe text only on a VGA screen?
>
>      Hmm... NOT an easy project. Probably the easiest way would be to
> connect your PIC to an ISA VGA card, it would take alot of I/O and alot of
> codespace but once that's done it is very simple to display text and even
> simple graphics with it. TTYL
>
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