Chapter 12

The Dark Screen

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In this section, the techniques to interface to a TV screen or any display that can accept a standard composite video signal is considered. It is a good excuse to use new features of several peripheral modules of the PIC24 and review new programming techniques. The objective of the first project objective is to get a nice dark screen (a well-synchronized video frame). But soon it is filled up with several entertaining graphical applications. Presently, there are many different formats and standards in use in the world of video. But the oldest and most common one is the composite video format. In different parts of the world, slightly different and therefore incompatible systems have been developed over ...

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