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18 years ago

DE2 board VGA Dispaly

Hello All, I am trying to use the board's SRAM to store an image and dispaly it on the screen. I designed a project using QuartusII and was able to manage the VGA dispaly timing. I used a...
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18 years ago

Are you using Nios in this ref. design? If you are using it then you can download your raw data file of image (converted from BMP) to the on-board flash and then when NIOS program gets executed it copies your image from flash to sram!

If you are not using Nios then it would be tough to load image directly. I think terasic provides software which can load image to SRAM using custom-JTAG interface.