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12 years ago

How to use VGA and audio ports on DE2-115 (Cyclone IV E)

Hello community: I would like to know how to make use of the VGA port on the DE2-115 board using either Verilog or C++ code in Quartus II, it doesn't really matter which. I would like to be abl...
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12 years ago

The 'Control Panel' software that comes on the system CD allows you to control the LCD panel (along with many other features of the board):)

If you're looking to understand the controlling protocol then:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hitachi_hd44780_lcd_controller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hitachi_hd44780_lcd_controller)

is pretty good and refers to the control codes used by a display compatible with the one on the DE2-115 board. Perfectly good place to start...