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11 years ago

simple frame buffer to vga on DE1-SOC

Hi guys, I'm a bit of a novice to qsys and the De1-soc so i was wondering if someone could help me. I'm interesting in reading data from an sd card and using a frame buffer to view it on the vg...
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11 years ago

Several of the Terasic demo board CDs have demos for VGA. I don't know about the DE1-SOC, but some of the other DE series boards have VGA demos. You will need to use a processor either with linux or without to operate the SD card. You have an ARM already on the SOC, it would work. Start with the GHRD for the DE1-SOC and add your VGA frame buffer to it.