Driving a VGA Display?! Getting started with an FPGA! (TinyFPGA) 

Yep, I saw them. Great stuff :-)

I saw the vid, he used discrete logic chips, however, instead of an FPGA

He used 6 74ls161 9 8 input nanda gate(74ls30) 4 74ls04 2 74ls00 And one eeprom

He is good at logics though

Ben used low-level components; he came as close to creating a video-card out of paperclips and gum as anyone probably ever will. 👍

HMMMMMM...

@@anonymouspuppy H . . . - - - . . .

Thought exactly the same thing!

Stop the video at 5:45. The demo code shows a "blink_pattern" variable set to SOS in binary. HTH

German: receives SOS German: Alles ist good... need to submerge and find next one.

are still not past the led on off? :D

Ah the power of example projects! haha

That too with a building block software lol. He just wanted to make a fun video and not spend too much time i guess.

​@@aakashjana6225 I think it's meant to show what fun you can have learning about these. Not meant as a tutorial or so, just as inspiration for those looking for a fun project or so.

"Made by juanmarch" xD olé viva Málaga

@@ELPiTiFOR ¡Viva! xD

Finally someone who mentions that! That's absolutely barbaric : ^ )

I came here for this comment. Please stop doing that, greatscott!

it must bleed!

Pickle Rick agreed, i like it

oh, just commented about that as well 🙃

Thanks for the feedback :-)

What project was it ?

@@sparshdhiman72 a small invertor

Can u post a video about ur project

Shadow the nightfury cool! Did it work ?

@@bhagyadezoysa5040 no sorry

I will see what I can do 😁

Even Arduino has an FPGA www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/MKRVidor4000

This is the future I desire :)

Thanks :-)

People are weird. Maybe they just missed the like button because they were so amazed.

So head over to Mike Field's Hamsterworks site, and grab his ebook. Then go look for 'Free Range VHDL' also a good free ebook. Then just stop messing about and get started. But be warned - if you're any kind of programmer, VHDL will do your head. Can't comment on Verilog, don't use it. Oh - and those schematic capture IDE's - yes. But see how quickly it got out of hand? Visual Basic anyone? Just bite the bullet and learn to code...

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How'd you get your head around all these protocols?

_Lolucoca_ vga is ‘just’ analog voltage to control brifgtness for each rgb colour channel, plus careful timing. Not too hard once you read up a bit and ‘click’ .. like again a page or two of codevin C even can expeess it All of these descend from tv in a lot of ways so there is consistency in concept Hdmi is a little trickier as they added some magic and also kept all the docs behind walls. There is a lot to it of you get into it - hdcp and all those security and audi protocols and so on. But if you go to its most basic tv modes and lower resolutions it will permit aimpler operation - its a layered protocol where you establish a link and add on layers of function. At its simplest its nearly just like vga .. you can get like 720p at 60hz as long as your timingis feeding out the pixel values on the right clock. Its digital instead of analog so timing is enormously more precise, hence why fpga is odeal and not a slow chip like most mcu Its also not using single wire for the levels, but differential pair (which many fpga directly support). Fofferential pair is a plus and minus wire and the delta is a pulse. So you need 3 pairs (rgb) and a pair for clock, and theres a little funny credit card chrcksum like thing you do to pad out the bits so it can sync or checksum or someyhing. But thats it - you need a crazy high clock (I forget .. 600MHz or something) and pump out the rgb values in digital. Its just fpga verilog is another step past what normal code is like and historically fpga and verilog books and kits are expensive as hell. But the last uear teat boards and chips came way way down in proce and old books are cheap on the market..

Jeff Mitchell I’d love to see the code! Can you share it? My email address: hugondon9@gmail.com

@@skeezixcodejedi I also would like the see the code. Can you post it on pastebin or github etc? EDIT: Maybe you can do a blog post or a write up somewhere. Would be really interesting.