Yes, no, maybe?

If you need a no, then it would be a no from me - sorry. Too many projects already.

Thanks for replying.
I didn't plan to buy the components yet, and if(when) i do, i will work on it for a while, i guess, and if i get stuck with it, it would probably be in a phase where the hardware is completed...

There was a link about a video generator that used the xc95108 cpld and another Sony chip. Now i got them both, but i can't find that link anymore...

try this link:

http://elm-chan.org/works/crtc/report.html

Daryl

I was looking for that. Thanks.

The only thing now missing is the 14.31MHz oscillator, which is kinda hard to find on ebay. And a usable jtag...

Is the 14.31MHz oscillator in fact a 14.318MHz oscillator?

Yes. The frequency is apparently 4 times the NTSC colorburst frequency, which is 3.579545
But doesn't Croatia use PAL ? According to the article:

Which is strange, because 4 * 4.43361875 = 17.734475 MHz, and not 13.5 MHz.

Yes we use PAL here, but all the tv sets work with both...

In the archive file that is downloadable on the website, there are abel files to program the cpld.
How exactly to i program the cpld with them using the Xilinx lpt jtag?

I think that the Propeller chip is a better solution to this device, since it has a built in video generator for pal/ntsc and vga. And not to mention 8 cores @20mips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller
Any comments?

From the other topic:


Lets put aside the 3d stuff for now.
For start ill just try to get plain text to show up on the screen.

For plain black & white text, you can use any AVR that has 1k of RAM easily.
I used an ATMega8 with a 16MHz clock and two resistors on my SBC-4 Daughter board. It provides a 40x25 character display. Because of a design imperfection, there is a 1 pixel gap between the charcters that would make horizontal lines (DOS box drawing or the underline) have small gaps. Other than that, it runs very well.

There are a few options for connecting to a host.

See this for more info:
http://sbc.rictor.org/dauterm.html

Daryl

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The parallel slave port is fancy because the mcu gets an interrupt on read/write, and you can also read data from the mcu.
2 mips is kinda slow, what if i placed an external framebuffer ram, and a 8 bit counter that would iterate through the line and the mcu would only have to care about sync and updating the framebuffer?