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15 years ago

Altera Monitor VGA

I am trying to write a program in C which will read a .bmp file and then draw that image on a monitor pixel by pixel. I am not sure how to read the pixel values from the bmp file. I know there ...
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15 years ago

Mabye you won't believe me, but it's a long time since I'm trying to find out something from googling everywhere.

I cannot find anything in Altera's site or elsewhere... regarding loading images in memory or using VGA ;-(

I created a NIOS 2 cpu with VGA, SRAM, ... it seems all to work fine

Until now, I can refresh all my SRAM addressing space (for example setting it to 0xff value in order to let all the screen became white) and print one pixel; now I've to load bitmap file in SRAM and then print it.

Any suggestion?

Many thanks in advance.