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vhpidirect: add 'arrays/matrices/framebuffer' #20

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@umarcor umarcor commented Apr 29, 2020

This PR is work in progress to extend example 'matrices' with an RGB24 framebuffer. A 2D array of integers is allocated and used in VHDL to represent a virtual screen. The buffer can be either saved to PNGs/GIF or shown in an X11 window in "real-time".

A subexample is included where a synthesisable VGA pattern generator is instantiated in a testbench along with a "Virtual VGA screen" module. The virtual screen captures the VGA signals (hsync, vsync, R, G and B), a draws the frames using one of the aforementioned methods. See the figure and explanations added to the docs.


To run all the subexamples locally, packages imagemagick and libx11-dev are required on Debian. On Windows, x11docker can be used along with a docker container:

x11docker --runx --no-auth --user=0 -i -- -v /$(pwd)://src -- ghdl/ext bash


These sources are inspired by http://ygdes.com/GHDL/fb/ and hackfin/ghdlex.


Pending enhancements:

Future work/ideas: #22

@umarcor umarcor marked this pull request as ready for review May 3, 2020 10:12
@eine eine merged commit 8d8e8bf into ghdl:master May 3, 2020
@umarcor umarcor deleted the matrices-framebuffer branch May 3, 2020 20:21
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