Hey all, I haven't popped in here in a while, so I wanted to give a quick update.
I have my Digilent Nexys 2 FPGA board set up, and I've got all the development tools installed in linux. I tested out some VGA signal generation code from a friend, and it works! I'm not going to use his though; I need to spend a little time to learn verilog on my own, and then I'll write my own implementation. Luckily VGA isn't exactly complex, so I think I'll be able to do that over the weekend (or maybe sooner.)
The current plan is to let the FPGA handle video generation and framebuffer, and use an atmel SAM7SE as the CPU. $7 for the FPGA (which will be capable of VGA and HDMI) and $6 for the CPU. Not bad!
Hooray! I was afraid I wouldn't like playing with the FPGA, but this is pretty cool. :approve:
I have my Digilent Nexys 2 FPGA board set up, and I've got all the development tools installed in linux. I tested out some VGA signal generation code from a friend, and it works! I'm not going to use his though; I need to spend a little time to learn verilog on my own, and then I'll write my own implementation. Luckily VGA isn't exactly complex, so I think I'll be able to do that over the weekend (or maybe sooner.)
The current plan is to let the FPGA handle video generation and framebuffer, and use an atmel SAM7SE as the CPU. $7 for the FPGA (which will be capable of VGA and HDMI) and $6 for the CPU. Not bad!
Hooray! I was afraid I wouldn't like playing with the FPGA, but this is pretty cool. :approve: