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16 years ago

UP VGA Pixel Buffer problem

Hello, I'm trying to use vga pixel buffer as a data source for the vga controller in SOPC builder on a DE2 board using Quartus 9.1. I'm not really sure what I need to use with the pixel bu...
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16 years ago

I finally solved my problem!

Components connections are shown in my attachment.

I set the pixel_buffer "Default Buffer Start Address" to the base address of the SRAM (0x00900000). Plus, I added the Alpha_blender so I can display both source at the same time on my monitor. char_buffer is displayed as foreground and pixel_buffer as background.

pixel_buffer is configure to work in 320x240 (width factor: 2, height factor: 2) and color space is 16-bit RGB.