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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Making a solid color image in VIP

What method would you use to output an image of a solid color? This color wouldn't need to change very much. All my objects are in SOPC builder. Hardwiring or just filling memory locations with...
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17 years ago

There is no need to produce a fixed color image for the alpha0 channel, the alpha blending mixer is ignoring the data from this port and the background image is always opaque. To use the alpha blending mixer in SOPC Builder you should probably build an empty SOPC Builder Avalon-ST Source component that drives all its outputs to 0 and connect it to alpha0.

If upgrading is something possible, the Test Pattern Generator has a checkbox to produce a solid color image in 9.0.

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