Vhdl And Small Format Color Displays
Jeffrey S. Lillie · 2020
Rochester Institute of Technology requires a course in Principals of Design Automation for Electrical Engineering Technology and Computer Engineering Technology students.At the completion of the course, students are expected to know the basics of coding for synthesis, test bench techniques, modelsim simulator, and the Xilinx tool flow for targeting complex programmable logic devices (CPLD's) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGA's).A quick survey of the typical college student showed that they love video images.It could be a video clip captured with a digital camera, a digital video playing on their laptop, or digital images captured with their camera phone.This paper reviews and discusses how an FPGA platform was selected and integrated with a QVGA(320x240) color display.It details how an eight lab sequence was developed to allow the students to accomplish a project goal of playing a video image sequence on the QVGA display.This paper also illustrates how additional ABET outcomes such as applied technical problem solving, technical writing, configuration management, team dynamics, communications, and ethics were integrated into the course content.