fpga4fun tft lcd driver supplier

Digital Blocks TFT LCD Controller reference design enables you to accelerate the design-in of TFT LCD panel displays in your system. The reference design centers on the Digital Blocks DB9000AVLN TFT LCD Controller intellectual property (IP) core, which is available in netlist or VHDL/Verilog HDL register transfer level (RTL) formats.

The DB9000AVLN core contains an Avalon® Memory-Mapped system interconnect for interfacing to the Nios® II embedded processor and SDRAM or SRAM controllers (either memory can serve as the frame buffer). Software supplied with this reference design runs on the Nios II embedded processor to place an image in the frame buffer memory and invokes the DB9000AVLN core to drive the LCD panel.

Using the Intel® Quartus® Design Software, you can instantiate the TFT LCD Controller reference design in a Cyclone®, Cyclone® II, or Cyclone® III FPGA development kit. See the Demonstrated Intel® Technology section for a complete list of supported Intel® FPGA development kits.

You can connect your LCD panel to the Intel FPGA development kit with the fabrication of an appropriate cable. Please contact Digital Blocks for more details.

What are FPGAs used for in preference to microcontrollers? There are several answers to this question. Logic consolidation (where one replaces a number of digital ICs with a single IC) is a big reason for using FPGAs. Due to the large number of logic elements (LEs) and I/O pin resources in an FPGA, a number of functions can be placed inside the same FPGA. For example, an ADC controller, a number processor, and a display driver (among other functions) can be placed inside an FPGA. Many commercial products use FPGAs in this way to make products smaller, lighter, and cheaper.

Several books and websites offer help and guidance to FPGA users at all experience levels. Chief among these are FPGA manufacturer’s own websites where one can get an enormous amount of free learning resources targeting all levels of expertise; www.fpga4fun.com is a popular website with several introductory and mid-level projects for hobbyists to build.