At 11:50 AM 3/5/03 -0700, Tim Webb wrote:
>Does anyone know if a 20 MHz 16F877 PIC is fast enough to generate a video
>signal?
>
>I am thinking of making a text generator, would I need any support IC's

PIC only (no support chips)

http://dt.prohosting.com/pic/pong.html
http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96rg/mc/mc.html#softvideo

To do a proper job, you need 1 support chip.  The STV5730 is one such chip
- the following is a site that has PIC code and schematics:

http://www.stv5730a.co.uk/

dwayne

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