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From: Kari Laine on 18 Jun 2010 10:32 Hi, I am wondering how these Video cards are made. I have now studied little bit of Verilog and VHDL - very interesting indeed. I assume commercial video cards use ASICs. But are they defined with the HDL-languages ? I guess yes because otherwise it would be impossible to design them... Is there anywhere more information how a graphics card is implemented? Is there just one processor or a collection of chips? Is there available an FPGA board with which you could test on your own? I think it should be like a second screen and you would have one screen connected to a normal VGA-adapter to retain display all the time. Anyway any comments about this welcomed. http://www.knjn.com/ Sells a board which one can practice. But I am after an FPGA-board, which support VGA. Actually one just do the VGA-interface in the FPGA - right? Best Regards Kari -- PIC - ARM - Microcontrollers - I2C - SPI Keypads - USB-RS232 - USB-I2C - Accessories http://www.byvac.com I am just a happy customer
From: BobW on 18 Jun 2010 12:59 "Kari Laine" <klaine8(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:b9mdne01qtmoGYbRnZ2dnUVZ7vednZ2d(a)giganews.com... > Hi, > > I am wondering how these Video cards are made. > > I have now studied little bit of Verilog and VHDL - very interesting > indeed. I assume commercial video cards use ASICs. > But are they defined with the HDL-languages ? > I guess yes because otherwise it would be impossible to design them... > > Is there anywhere more information how a graphics card is implemented? > Is there just one processor or a collection of chips? > > Is there available an FPGA board with which you could test on your own? > I think it should be like a second screen and you would have one > screen connected to a normal VGA-adapter to retain display all the time. > > Anyway any comments about this welcomed. > > http://www.knjn.com/ > Sells a board which one can practice. But I am after an FPGA-board, > which support VGA. Actually one just do the VGA-interface in the FPGA - > right? > > Best Regards > Kari > Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Look around the Xilinx and Altera websites. You'll find a ton of info about implementing various graphics standards. Bob -- == All google group posts are automatically deleted due to spam ==
From: krw on 18 Jun 2010 19:36 On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:32:23 +0300, Kari Laine <klaine8(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I am wondering how these Video cards are made. > >I have now studied little bit of Verilog and VHDL - very interesting >indeed. I assume commercial video cards use ASICs. Yes. The term to search on is "GPU" ("Graphics Processing Unit"). >But are they defined with the HDL-languages ? Most likely. >I guess yes because otherwise it would be impossible to design them... Not necessarily. There are still a lot of schematics users out there. Don't ask me why, but... ;-) >Is there anywhere more information how a graphics card is implemented? Sure, there is a lot of literature on the web. Look for white papers on the GPU manufacturer's sites. >Is there just one processor or a collection of chips? Everything is "just one processor" anymore. ;-) In this case, it's a graphics processor. >Is there available an FPGA board with which you could test on your own? >I think it should be like a second screen and you would have one >screen connected to a normal VGA-adapter to retain display all the time. Sure, this is a common project. You should be able to find such boards with a Google search. You're not going to make anything competitive with nVidia, for instance, but you'll learn a *lot*. Be warned, it's not a small project. >Anyway any comments about this welcomed. > >http://www.knjn.com/ >Sells a board which one can practice. But I am after an FPGA-board, >which support VGA. Actually one just do the VGA-interface in the FPGA - >right? Sure. Shouldn't be too hard to find.
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