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Honored ContributorHallo BerkuL
You should have a look, if your college takes part at the altera educational program. Because then, you should have access to an altera UP2 development kit, which altera give away for educational purpose almost for free. This kit comes with a board which is equipped with an low cost VGA port. (look at http://www.altera.com/literature/univ/upds.pdf (http://www.altera.com/literature/univ/upds.pdf) for a brief overview). Also there is the book "Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems by James O. Hamblen, Michael D. Furman" included in this kit, which handles the topic of vga signal generation in about 20 pages, including vhdl source code. The book can also be ordered by amazon (search for "0792374398" which is the ISBN number) for about 86$. This gives you the possibility to include a vga port for a few cents and a couple of LEs. Hope this helps...
