Advanced 2D Graphics Contoller

Overview

Key Features

• Fully synchronous, synthesizable and technology independent RTL code
• Capable of drawing shapes such as pixels, lines and rectangles
• Capable of drawing text of various fonts, sizes and colors
• Capable of copying, resizing and recolor rectangles – e.g. “BitBlt” and ROP
• Capable of drawing/moving graphical objects – e.g. ”sprites”
• Supports multi-buffered frame memory – which eliminates flicker when graphical objects move
• Supports Analog Video – with external A/D circuit
• Support of alpha blending (2 variants)
• Supports Digital Video – SDI
• Anti-aliasing
• Text/Graphics overlay
• Hardware Window – Picture-In-Picture support
• Hardware-cursor support, by making use of sprites
• Programmable frame rate
• Up to 4096 x 4096 pixels display resolution
• Generic color depth up to 24 bits per pixel
• Supports several memory types such as ZBT-SRAM, SDRAM, DDR etc.
• Supports address mapped linear frame buffer or single address command based interface
• Generic data bus width between BADGE and video memory
• Supports several bus types such as Avalon (Nios), CoreConnect/OPB (PowerPC, MicroBlaze) and Intel Xscale CPU-bus
• CPU-data bus of 32, 16 and 8-bit supported
• BADGE has been used with displays such as:
• Sharp display LQ065T9DR51, 400x240 (WQVGA)
• Sharp display LQ057Q3DC12, 320x240 (QVGA)
• Samsung displays LTM150XH-T01, LTM150XH-L04, 1024x768 (XGA)
• AU Optronics A070VW01 7” 800x480 (WVGA)
• Supports serial LVDS and parallel LVTTL TFT-interface
• Supports DVI
• Supports Display Power Sequencing
• Supports DE Only Mode, for displays which do not use hsync and vsync inputs
• Support of Portrait mode
• A Test Pattern Generator is included, for debug purpose
• WinCE driver
• Linux driver (accelerated Frame Buffer for Linux New)
• API, for non OS users

Benefits

• Benefits / Performance
• High resolution – 4096 x 4096 pixels
• High color depth – 24-bit color, plus alpha
• Quality graphics acceleration with subpixel rendering
• Flexibility
• Any display format, memory type and processor interface
• Scaleable for performance or cost
• Scaleable for small or large displays
• Any FPGA family and vendor
• Easy to adapt and modify
• Future proof
• Wide selection of available components and vendors, a multitude of FPGAs, packages and temperature ranges
• Surf the FPGA technology. Dramatic development of performance and price
• Product life cycle ownership
• Migrate when you choose
• Avoid EOL disasters

Applications

• Automotive,
• medtech,
• defense,
• industrial,
• microproccesors

Deliverables

• Readable source code or encrypted
• User and Programmers Guide
• Design and Simulation environment and setup (testbench, scripts, API SW etc)

Technical Specifications