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

"i didn't know about verilog"

lost prem an now yt showing me three year old videos... wtf.. BTW there is a VGA Arduino project, but it require one just to create the sync signal and another to use it. This is of course back when Arduinos were only 16mhz.

Got my first FPGA kit today, driving a scope in X/Y/Z mode for a green/white image is on my list

Vga is old but interestinng

2020 was 3 years ago 😢

Genius

I was looking for this

I always get goosebumps when I see that you highlight 2-3 times and the paper start to bend a little bit due to excess humidity.

Wow, I didnt know about Tiny FPGA, it's seems a great solution for little projects. I heard about other open source FPGA called iCEBreaker.

Juan is not pronounced “iuan”… 🤣🤣🤣
Check any how-to-pronounce video 😅😅😅

This looks like a nice way to learn fpga. Thanks, GreatScott

verilog hdl and vhdl, which for some fucking reason aren't the same thing

Hmm, the NUT gate :/

Will It Work With An Arduino Uno

Brooo, this is amazing!!

i'd like to learn FPGA on Xilinx XUPV5

I wonder if driving a DVI output may be easier than driving VGA?

Interesting video! I'm implementing Ben Eater's 8-bit computer in an FPGA on my channel in a series of videos. A VGA display is one thing I plan to implement after expanding the computer to be able to use it.

Awesome 😮

Thank you great Scott!! This was really useful and interesting! I want to play with fpga now! 😊

"creating such an hsync and vsync signal was not possible for me to do at this point"
bruh just say you couldn't do it.. they guy who's code you copied could do it so it clearly was possible.

Did you really connect that LED directly to an output of the FPGA, without a resistor in between, or did I miss something?

If so, do you know how much current the LED is drawing, the maximum current rating for the LED, and more importantly, the maximum current rating of the output?

I'd expect something to blow.

An LED normally turns on at around 1.6V-1.7V. You normally limit the current through it by allowing for the difference between the output voltage and the LED turn on voltage, and using a resistor to make sure it stays in the allowable range for both the LED and the thing driving it, using Ohms law.

Connecting it directly is likely to lead to damage to the FPGA, or the LED, or both, and disappointed first time electronics experimenters.

is there a ide like icestudio or makecode for arduino?

thanks

crapduino has not enough horsepower boo hoo. learn a decent language then.

Hmm, putting that bit about driving the VGA in the title is clickbait of the first order. I only clicked on the video to see how you generate analog rgb signals with a digital logic which you skipped by showing a blinky led and then playing someone else's implementation of pong...

11 months ago, I think its time for episode 2 and starting a short (or long) series exploring FPGA :D

Im not really a VHDL expert. Learned some Bluespec last semester in the university but we didn’t run it on real hardware

So the Bluespec Compiler basically translates the code into verilog. Do you thing you can Programm the tiny fpga then with Bluespec?

Where exactly is your accent from?

Thank you for this video and all the links, your videos are great

i achieved VGA driving with my DE0-Nano & Quartus 2 with the fpga4fun website tutorial. That website is perfect for fpga noobs.

playing pong against yourself is really sad

What would be a good platform to learn on? TinyFPGA BX board or Fomu ?

For example, the fomu appears to use a RISC-V softcore and uses the ValentyUSB ip core / github smunaut/ice40-playground/tree/usb/cores/usb )

I'm interested in a structured learning material, that goes from zero fpga knowledge, to designing a USB interface! Would also be nice if the workshop covers Migen/MiSoC->LiteX , which seems to flatten the learning curve by allowing the use of Python to generate HDL?!

Did any body tell you that you are great😅

I heard that LUT based structures are begin to take over in CPLDs as well, which has some draw back on their time domain performance(Phase noise, jitter, etc..) Anyone can confirm this?

That's awesome. I think you may have inspired me to get back into these little beastys after about 25 years. It looks much easier than it used to be. Great video

where can I buy these buttons?

Why would someone dislike such a great educational video!

Make rf sniffing kit using Arduino

If it takes an FPGA for VGA driving, what would it take to make your own HDMI display driver?

now i know that i dont want to learn fpga lol

I have that same monitor, in fact, I'm watching this video on it the only difference is that it doesn't have the HDMI text on it but everything els is the same lol I guess mine is bit older.

The biggest issue I have with FPGAs is simply cost. They're just still too expensive. I could get an ATmega328 and a crystal for <$5 and do what I'd do with a microcontroller. I could also get a cheap clone for like $10-15. The TinyFPGA Bx and other "hobbyist" FPGAs are all still around $50. That's much cheaper and more available than ever, but I feel like they're still too high for them to really take off in the maker space.
Cool stuff though!

All that time just to say in the last 30 seconds......then I just copied someone else's code

Thanks for the great video. Could you possibly do a video where you use the FPGA to make a USB-Serial (UART) converter? Then microcontrollers like the ATtiny can communicate with the computer. I'm sure there are other alternatives like some FTDI chips or whatever that I've read about in forums but this would be a nice DIY method.

“Arruino has not enough power to drive VGA”

Ben Eater: are you challenging me?

Great