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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Frame buffer/nano-X speed issues.

Hi, until now we have been ignoring the fact that the video update rate using the frame buffer wiki and a neek is slow. Has anyone looked into this enough to figure out where the bottleneck is? Has...
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16 years ago

As the standard NEEK FPGA design does not provide any hardware acceleration, this is bound to be slow. It would be nice to have an improved design that does have hardware acceleration (plus the necessary driver), but I don't think anybody tried to create one yet.

-Michael