The magic 3! FPGAs being the coolest components out there, with VGA being the standard for all graphics and finally; SDRAM, the base of all synchronous memories. These past few days, I’ve been designing an FPGA based SDRAM controller as I’ve got an SDRAM chip on my FPGA development board which I haven’t yet interfaced to. Instead […]
After managing to get my graphics controller working at a mediocre resolution of 100×75, I wanted to squeeze as much performance out of this chip as possible! Unfortunately, due to memory constraints, this meant rewriting the VGA controller to work at a different resolution. The original controller was running at a resolution of 800×600, which […]
Well, this week so far has been very productive with regards to electronics! This is a project I’ve been wanted to do for ages just haven’t got round to doing. I’ve previously designed VGA controllers on both my CPLD and my FPGA board but I’ve not actually done anything useful other than design a bouncing […]
Whenever I want to test something out really quick, I always find that Matlab is the easiest way to get things done with ease and don’t worry if you don’t have it, most of the functionality can be found in FreeMat (http://goo.gl/1a6zA)! So today, I’ve come up with the thought of adding some stuff to […]
After much contemplation, I decided to rewrite the original ILI9163 library that I was using for the LCD. Fortunately, the LCD manual was much easier than I thought to read (http://goo.gl/CNVU8V), so tonight, I went about rewriting the whole LCD driver. I didn’t include any of the gamma correction curves as that would require a […]
