Embedded Assessment of Microcomputer Fundamentals For Embedded Systems Education

A video signal clamping arrangement is provided for periodically clamping a predetermined nonpicture portion of a video signal, having picture portion and predetermined nonpicture portions, to a desired reference level with a clamp time duration varying as a function of noise on the video signal. A noise detector is employed for providing a noise level signal representative of the average noise level on the video signal during a predetermined nonpicture portion thereof. A controllable switch is employed for purposes of completing a clamping circuit for clamping the video signal to a desired signal level. A clamp pulse timing circuit responds to the noise level signal for providing a switch control signal for controlling the switch on time duration as a function of the magnitude of the noise level signal.