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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789805413

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Assembly

Tools

FPGA

Concepts

Embedded Systems

Author (1):

Frank Bruno

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to FPGAs and Xilinx Architectures

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to FPGA Architectures and Xilinx Vivado FREE CHAPTER

3. Section 2: Introduction to Verilog RTL Design, Simulation, and Implementation

4. Chapter 2: Combinational Logic

5. Chapter 3: Counting Button Presses

6. Chapter 4: Let's Build a Calculator

7. Chapter 5: FPGA Resources and How to Use Them

8. Chapter 6: Math, Parallelism, and Pipelined Design

9. Section 3: Interfacing with External Components

10. Chapter 7: Introduction to AXI

11. Chapter 8: Lots of Data? MIG and DDR2

12. Chapter 9: A Better Way to Display – VGA

13. Chapter 10: Bringing It All Together

14. Chapter 11: Advanced Topics

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Chapter 9: A Better Way to Display – VGA

Up until now, we've been limited to displaying information using LEDs, single color or RGB, as well as the 7-segment display. We are quite capable of performing operations and displaying limited information, as we have demonstrated with our temperature sensor and calculator. The Nexys A7 offers an additional output that can provide us with an almost unlimited method of displaying information, the Video Graphics Array (VGA) connector. The VGA connector on the Nexys A7 can display resolutions of up to 1600x1200, with up to 2^12 or 4,096 colors. What allows us to unlock this capability is that we now know how to use our external memory, which will provide our framebuffer.

By the end of this chapter, we'll have created a method of displaying data on a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) or LCD monitor via the VGA connector. In Chapter 10, Bringing It All Together, we'll use this methodology to upgrade some of our projects to utilize...