THANKS! I'll look at this. Harold > Take a look at the Atmel AT91SAM9261: > > http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=3638 > > It's a much bigger beast than a PIC but basically you're going to need > a lot of memory and processor speed to drive a large color graphics > LCD. > > Cheers, > Zik > > On 6/8/07, Harold Hallikainen wrote: >> I'm finding more and more applications where I have to drive a color >> graphics LCD. We have a system running with a CPLD and SRAM where the >> CPLD >> generates the high speed parallel video for the display, pulling the >> data >> from SRAM, and also allowing the PIC to read and write the SRAM. It >> SEEMS, >> though, that this should be a relatively common application, and that >> such >> an LCD controller should be on the PIC (or on the display module). Is >> anyone aware of such a micro (or a family of display modules that have >> their own frame buffers)? >> >> By the way, I'm having fun with Unifont (http://czyborra.com/unifont/). >> Yesterday I wrote a small perl script that takes the native Unifont >> format >> and converts it into PIC24 .pbyte lines with the first two bytes holding >> the Unicode character number. If the character is 16 bits wide, instead >> of >> 8, it takes two table entries with the second one having a Unicode >> number >> of 0xffff. On receiving characters to display, I intend to do a binary >> search through the table, then put up the appropriate character. Anyway, >> Unifont looks interesting... >> >> Harold >> >> >> -- >> FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising >> opportunities available! >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising opportunities available! -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist