Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Maxim MAX7456 On Screen Display

While looking for a solution to display characters over video for an on screen display I came across the Maxim MAX7456. This is one easy to use chip for exactly this purpose. Using a SPI bus it is easily interfaced with a PIC microcontroller (I'm using a PIC18F2520 for testing).

I have just started playing with this chip and have discovered how easy and powerful it is to use. I have one project in mind for it that I am starting on now and will post again once it is further developed.

2 comments:

  1. I am trying to test it with breadboard and I use PIC16F877A.

    Do you have a sample code to display some text on the screen?

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