Project Info
Author: Chris
Difficulty: Medium
Time Invested: 2 Hours
Prerequisites:
Take a look at the above
articles before continuing
to read this article.
Author: Chris
Difficulty: Medium
Time Invested: 2 Hours
Prerequisites:
Take a look at the above
articles before continuing
to read this article.
This article will look at how to build the same functionality that the Masochist's Video Card (built only with 7400 logic IC's) had, however this time we will use the DE0 Nano development board to complete the task, instead of wrist-breaking, pain-staking, masochist-loving wire-wrapping.
Purpose & Overview of this project
The goal for this project is exactly the same as the Masochist's Video Card. We want to be able to output 8 unique colors in a predefined sequence and at specific intervals. A breakout board for the VGA connector will be built since there is no VGA connector on the DE0 Nano board.
To duplicate the VGA output seen in the Masochist's Video Card project on the DE0 Nano development board, we will first need to choose a development language: Verilog or VHDL and secondly we'll need to install the altera development studio (Quartus II) onto a computer. For no particularly good reason, let's use VHDL to reach the goals of this project.