Driving a VGA Display?! Getting started with an FPGA! (TinyFPGA)

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In this video I will be having a closer look at FPGAs and I will do some simple beginners examples with the TinyFPGA BX board. That means we will find out what makes an FPGA so special and also how to program it easily. At the end I will then show you how the required VGA signals looks like and how the TinyFPGA can create them. Let's get started!
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@kaumohlamonyane272 4 жыл бұрын

Ben Eater also has a great video on driving a vga

@greatscottlab 4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I saw them. Great stuff :-)

@oniruddhoalam2039 4 жыл бұрын

I saw the vid, he used discrete logic chips, however, instead of an FPGA

@mohammedasadig6030 4 жыл бұрын

He used 6 74ls161 9 8 input nanda gate(74ls30) 4 74ls04 2 74ls00 And one eeprom

@mmdnaderi7183 4 жыл бұрын

He is good at logics though

@user-vn7ce5ig1z 4 жыл бұрын

Ben used low-level components; he came as close to creating a video-card out of paperclips and gum as anyone probably ever will. 👍

@ankaz2019 4 жыл бұрын

"The LED on my FPGA board started blinking in Morse Codes displaying SOS, which means that everything worked out correctly." Hmm... I don't know whether to be concerned for Scott or the -sweatshop- manufacturers...

@anonymouspuppy 4 жыл бұрын

HMMMMMM...

@BenMitro 4 жыл бұрын

@@anonymouspuppy H . . . - - - . . .

@Miguelocod 4 жыл бұрын

Thought exactly the same thing!

@NormanNodDunbar 4 жыл бұрын

Stop the video at 5:45. The demo code shows a "blink_pattern" variable set to SOS in binary. HTH

@volkryn 4 жыл бұрын

German: receives SOS German: Alles ist good... need to submerge and find next one.

@juanmarico8810 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks @GreatScott! for your reference to my "Pong" project. :) It remained to test the "sound card" in the video. ;)

@ELPiTiFOR 4 жыл бұрын

"Made by juanmarch" xD olé viva Málaga

@juanmarico8810 4 жыл бұрын

@@ELPiTiFOR ¡Viva! xD

@gigimanueliacob8062 Жыл бұрын

I always get goosebumps when I see that you highlight 2-3 times and the paper start to bend a little bit due to excess humidity.

@Slushee 4 жыл бұрын

You went from turning a led on and of with a t-flip flop to driving a VGA display and playing pong _real fast_

@DarthZackTheFirstI 3 жыл бұрын

are still not past the led on off? :D

@nickwallette6201 2 жыл бұрын

Ah the power of example projects! haha

@aakashjana6225 Жыл бұрын

That too with a building block software lol. He just wanted to make a fun video and not spend too much time i guess.

@LuLeBe Жыл бұрын

@@aakashjana6225 I think it's meant to show what fun you can have learning about these. Not meant as a tutorial or so, just as inspiration for those looking for a fun project or so.

@jasonmacneil6961 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing explation as usual. Been a fan for a long time. These projects keep a person sane in a time like this and you learn at the same time . 😁 WIN! WIN! ✌🏼🙏🏻

@EdwinFairchild 4 жыл бұрын

I cringe when he goes over stuff with the highlighter more than once and then the black starts to bleed 😂😭 , dope video though like always !!!

@yeet1337 4 жыл бұрын

Finally someone who mentions that! That's absolutely barbaric : ^ )

@felixdietzCGN 4 жыл бұрын

I came here for this comment. Please stop doing that, greatscott!

@picklerick814 4 жыл бұрын

it must bleed!

@htim5889 4 жыл бұрын

Pickle Rick agreed, i like it

@hrmny_ 4 жыл бұрын

oh, just commented about that as well 🙃

@AI_Trainer1024 3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome. I think you may have inspired me to get back into these little beastys after about 25 years. It looks much easier than it used to be. Great video

@makealemonade 3 жыл бұрын

Your level of details in video is quite unique. The way you even described the type of blinking at 6:22. Loved it!

@shadowrider-ki8sn 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, once again! Like always, very informative without getting too sophisticated. And by the way, it shows a great sense of humour, to let the chip blink SOS to say "everything worked out correctly"

@OranCollins 4 жыл бұрын

DUDE! I've always wanted to get into fpga! this is awesome! I love the fact that the fpga is in a frendly arduino like form factor! and its cheap! thanks for the video! keep it up!

@neekonsaadat2532 3 жыл бұрын

Good job detailing all of the basic steps like installing atom and installing extensions; I remember frustrating over that stuff when I was a beginner, very valuable stuff!

@MorneMoolman4 4 жыл бұрын

This is awesome. Thank you for doing this video. I wanted to do this for a while now.

@julienderiviere4907 4 жыл бұрын

And as always... great content! Love your channel 🤘

@hellNo116 4 жыл бұрын

man i remember watching you making a radio years ago. i even asked who listen to radio still and you answered for some reason (me being an entitled idiot back then, thinking if i don't use it who should). this might be the first project i might sit down and start doing my self. i really enjoy your content keep it up!!!

@Bleibruk 4 жыл бұрын

That's something new to learn in this quarantine!

@ChrisRid 4 жыл бұрын

Really informative video! I had an idea of what FPGA's were from watching a couple of videos on the EEVBlog, but this explained things in a much simpler way to understand. May have to get myself one!

@aldrinoshaju8899 4 жыл бұрын

Thank You for the FPGA learning website, it will help me in the project that i am doing.

@davidjurka5456 4 жыл бұрын

This is my favourite kind of video. Please do more videos about FPGA and Arduino alternatives.

@pipeJIME924 4 жыл бұрын

This channel is just amazing! I would love if you eventually do a video a bit different, talking about you, what got you in this beautiful field of electronics and engineering, what do you do besides this channel in the professional sense, and maybe some tips and advice for new students (as me) on this field who would love to know what we could achieve in our careers.

@ozzymandius666 4 жыл бұрын

HDL. That was the only thing standing between me and understanding FPGAs. Thanks Scott.

@tamasine05 4 жыл бұрын

Always loved watching your videos, cheers from the country that manufactured the chip. 🇲🇾

@samverve 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you great Scott!! This was really useful and interesting! I want to play with fpga now! 😊

@oniruddhoalam2039 4 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this video after I saw it in the GreatScott! Facebook page.

@micaiaskauss 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video and all the links, your videos are great

@colonelbarker 4 жыл бұрын

I really, really loved this video. I'd really like a bunch more videos demonstrating the TinyFPGA :D

@salutoitoi 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your video, you seem to be "breathless" (not "brushless" like the motors), stay safe and good recovery !

@Huguinskiable 4 жыл бұрын

This video reminded me to some time ago when I learned VHDL at university! The Pong project was a great throwback. Do you plan to do more videos on the FPGA theme? I’d love to see some more :)

@greatscottlab 4 жыл бұрын

I will see what I can do 😁

@Taran72 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! A great video!! I didn't know there were so many resources available on this topic. It's not for me at the moment but I'll definitely save it on my playlist. :)

@greatscottlab 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback :-)

@el-sayedahmadbabars9232 4 жыл бұрын

you are awesome man !!!! please elaborate more about FPGA and how to use it to control DC motors indeed man u r brilliant love you appreciate your effort and knowledge

@avejst 4 жыл бұрын

Interersting project Nice of you to Bitluni's channel Thanks for sharing :-)

@AppliedCryogenics Жыл бұрын

This looks like a nice way to learn fpga. Thanks, GreatScott

@skeezixcodejedi 4 жыл бұрын

I recently figured out hdmi on a xilinx fpga as well. Honestly only 2 pages of code once I got my head around it .. Can provide details if needed Vga is old hat now :)

@iqra1090 4 жыл бұрын

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@_lolucoca_9735 4 жыл бұрын

How'd you get your head around all these protocols?

@skeezixcodejedi 4 жыл бұрын

_Lolucoca_ vga is ‘just’ analog voltage to control brifgtness for each rgb colour channel, plus careful timing. Not too hard once you read up a bit and ‘click’ .. like again a page or two of codevin C even can expeess it All of these descend from tv in a lot of ways so there is consistency in concept Hdmi is a little trickier as they added some magic and also kept all the docs behind walls. There is a lot to it of you get into it - hdcp and all those security and audi protocols and so on. But if you go to its most basic tv modes and lower resolutions it will permit aimpler operation - its a layered protocol where you establish a link and add on layers of function. At its simplest its nearly just like vga .. you can get like 720p at 60hz as long as your timingis feeding out the pixel values on the right clock. Its digital instead of analog so timing is enormously more precise, hence why fpga is odeal and not a slow chip like most mcu Its also not using single wire for the levels, but differential pair (which many fpga directly support). Fofferential pair is a plus and minus wire and the delta is a pulse. So you need 3 pairs (rgb) and a pair for clock, and theres a little funny credit card chrcksum like thing you do to pad out the bits so it can sync or checksum or someyhing. But thats it - you need a crazy high clock (I forget .. 600MHz or something) and pump out the rgb values in digital. Its just fpga verilog is another step past what normal code is like and historically fpga and verilog books and kits are expensive as hell. But the last uear teat boards and chips came way way down in proce and old books are cheap on the market..

@Huguinskiable 4 жыл бұрын

Jeff Mitchell I’d love to see the code! Can you share it? My email address: hugondon9@gmail.com

@Jonas_Meyer 4 жыл бұрын

@@skeezixcodejedi I also would like the see the code. Can you post it on pastebin or github etc? EDIT: Maybe you can do a blog post or a write up somewhere. Would be really interesting.

@0xEmmy 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I can't wait to hook one of those up to the 6502 system I'm working on!

@shadowthenightfury2572 4 жыл бұрын

You posted this video exactly when i finished my project :P

@sparshdhiman72 4 жыл бұрын

What project was it ?

@shadowthenightfury2572 4 жыл бұрын

@@sparshdhiman72 a small invertor

@bhagyadezoysa5040 4 жыл бұрын

Can u post a video about ur project

@sparshdhiman72 4 жыл бұрын

Shadow the nightfury cool! Did it work ?

@shadowthenightfury2572 4 жыл бұрын

@@bhagyadezoysa5040 no sorry

@666aron 4 жыл бұрын

Nice introductory video. When you showed the Arty board I nearly fell of my chair while screaming. Not only Xilinx FPGAs are overkill for beginners, the prices are too high, especially the in case of the Digilent dev boards. Then you showed the Lattice FPGA with a completely open source board, and development environment, and I instantly calmed down. I've been using FPGAs for years. Xilinx, Intel, Microsemi, Lattice. Nowadays I'm only using Lattice, it has the right amount of resources, the right price, and an amazingly helpful community. Oh and those Tiny FPGAs are pure gem. When the new EX version comes out I will surely buy it.

@isaacllanas2828 2 жыл бұрын

Brooo, this is amazing!!

@fernandocaballero5102 4 жыл бұрын

nice project i hope you dive more on the fpga topic! cheers

@fabianalfonsoflores1952 4 жыл бұрын

I always has been interested in FPGA, with your aproach will be more easy, thank you

@CraigHollabaugh 4 жыл бұрын

I learned FPGA basics from the nandland video channel. Thanks from Colorado and good luck!

@electronic7979 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent project

@eddyfontaineyoutu100 4 жыл бұрын

Super presentation ! 👍👍👍 Thanks !

@dwietr 4 жыл бұрын

Sweet, I didn't know such small (and easily usable) fpga boards were already available. The Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 seemed promising at first, until I've read that you could only use predefined fpga modules, which prevented me to look into this for a long time. Anyways, these miniature boards should be a lot easier to incorporate into projects in contrast to those Xilinx/Altera dev-boards I used to work with.

@klong4128 3 жыл бұрын

GreatScott, very good introduction to tiny FPGA bx .I recalled 5 yrs ago when xillins donated FPGA to my Diploma/secondary engineering school without training .I tried to self-learning through Internet for 3 days and finally gave up !! The price of FPGA and one day professional training are extremely expensive and even the university professors are layman/greenHorn in 2015 ! Today 2020 ,I started to see TinyFpgaBx ,simplified version for Beginners. It was similar to Arduino(invented in 2003 by Italians ,Raspberry Pi invented in UK ) .All are cheap versions for Primary School Toy now.The FPGA will becoming the Secondary School Toy soon ( 2020 many University Engineering Starts to teach U-degree courses, BSc,MSc,Phd ). Thus with Cheap Fpda , future youngsters will create their own computer, microprocessor, CPU, GPU ,SoC,Qbit/quantumComputer...etc. Thanks for your sharing knowledge .

@theforcefor 2 жыл бұрын

This is the future I desire :)

@amnesie6615 4 жыл бұрын

Das ist genau das Video, was ich mir lange ersehnt habe! Dank' dir, bitte bitte gern mehr dazu! Gibt ja auch VGA Output via ESP32 (FabGL Library) wirklich toll dass du dich dem nun auch widmest!

@MyVanitar 4 жыл бұрын

I always looking for an FPGA project explanation as you did

@philipacovington 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting video! I'm implementing Ben Eater's 8-bit computer in an FPGA on my channel in a series of videos. A VGA display is one thing I plan to implement after expanding the computer to be able to use it.

@MohitSharma-eu9kl 4 жыл бұрын

after a long time you have created a nice video

@ekurenyong6575 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video you've inspired me a lot.

@venkimeip 3 жыл бұрын

Nice, I am Fan of your discoveries..

@RuskiRozpierdalacz 4 жыл бұрын

I recently started plying with FPGAs, and it is fun. System Verilog has vary similar syntax with C, so designing the circuit is basically like programming.

@devttyUSB0 4 жыл бұрын

Super cool! This video brings FPGAs in to the realm of hobbyists!

@Fernando-xd4uo 3 жыл бұрын

10:31 juanmard made me the day😂😂

@timschulenburg3240 4 жыл бұрын

I did not know that such components like FPGA´s even exists, thanks for teaching me new stuff ;)

@northshorepx 4 жыл бұрын

Even Arduino has an FPGA www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/MKRVidor4000

@solidacid1337 4 жыл бұрын

Cool! I've been hoping you'd do a video on FPGA's, I have a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA development board waiting for a good use!

@timwatson682 4 жыл бұрын

So head over to Mike Field's Hamsterworks site, and grab his ebook. Then go look for 'Free Range VHDL' also a good free ebook. Then just stop messing about and get started. But be warned - if you're any kind of programmer, VHDL will do your head. Can't comment on Verilog, don't use it. Oh - and those schematic capture IDE's - yes. But see how quickly it got out of hand? Visual Basic anyone? Just bite the bullet and learn to code...

@MrMraza123 3 жыл бұрын

well explained about FPGA. thanks.

@newburypi 4 жыл бұрын

Surely hope this is just a toe-in-the-water. A great introduction, but I would like to see a great deal more. Gonna check the budget ( $ and time ) to see what I can do on my own for now. Thanks for another thought provoking video.

@user-eu9xv7sg3k 4 жыл бұрын

Good guide, Learn a lot ~

@233kosta 6 ай бұрын

Got my first FPGA kit today, driving a scope in X/Y/Z mode for a green/white image is on my list

@bhagyadezoysa5040 4 жыл бұрын

Useful video for fpga beginners

@climbeverest Жыл бұрын

I was looking for this

@jrioublanc 4 жыл бұрын

Good "teaser", I guess we'll have more videos about FPGA and this development kit.

@drivers99 4 жыл бұрын

I was going to mention Arty board that I used to output VGA, and then you showed it. Well, I only used the sample program that they have for it and I don’t really know how to do stuff myself on it. (Also the VGA adapter digilent sells for it only has a couple bits for each R G B signal.)

@ryanbi 22 күн бұрын

❤ Very good man ! Thanks😊

@ShaunakDe 4 жыл бұрын

I'm looking forward to more complex fpga projects. Like even generating hdmi signals.

@coderhex1675 4 жыл бұрын

thats what i am talking about.!! we want more fpga things! I know you are different from other ardiono geeks.

@andrewmack4830 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thank you. Can you please do a video about how to drive and program for vacuum fluorescent displays, which I think are much nicer than LCD. Thank you

@theengineer9910 4 жыл бұрын

i used that same VGA Adapter for my DE0 Nano VGA driver ! I wanna replicate ben eaters in the future in VHDL or Verilog, im saving FPGA stuff for the future simple VGA was the last thing i did

@hernandezurbina 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, Scott! Do you have a diagram for the circuit that you build to turn on the led with the button? Cheers!

@DJlegionuk 4 жыл бұрын

I managed to get a VGA display from a teensy, but my code was not the best and all I could do is display a basic pattern. A lot of people use pic to make TV rgb testers. The Ben Eater video was so good as explaining the way vga worked, I am happy to see you talk about it on the comments. Perhaps you could recreate his ttl logic setup in this fpga ?

@RobertSzasz 4 жыл бұрын

I have to dig up the vhdl I used to create a basic vga/cga output on a digilent Spartan dev board years ago.. (output was limited since there was no dac)

@atommeyer2226 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video, i tried hdl programming but also got stuck... it's really hard. Please do more fpga stuff :)

@ScientistRenzo 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!

@UnknownIdentityDE 3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if you know bitluni in person?! Following your channel since some time. Great content, keep it up!

@jacksonpollard4102 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Great Video

@greatscottlab 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks :-)

@michaeltimothy9046 4 жыл бұрын

Great project nice

@nexusvijayawada6648 4 жыл бұрын

Superb Sir

@IIGrayfoxII 4 жыл бұрын

@GreatScott Look up Ben Eater's video on making a video card. Very informative on how to send an image to a monitor.

@funkykoval2099 4 жыл бұрын

Groovy stuff! Will it be possible to create energy harvesting solutions in fpga? My dream is to have 400to 230V converter and be able to power the fridge.. Charging 5V devices is easy. All best!

@kurtnelle 4 жыл бұрын

@GreatScott, How many projects do you try before you get one that turns out well enough to be published like this?

@pexi86 4 жыл бұрын

Staying creative, you stay too!

@ultravidz 4 жыл бұрын

Very satisfying

@gabrielmarzullo4007 4 жыл бұрын

I once had to make a microprocessor based on a FPGA for a project in the university (RAM, ALU, I/O, etc). It was very... ¿Educative? and fun.

4 жыл бұрын

Very nice introduction to FPGS 👍

@nitinsoniism 3 жыл бұрын

Why would someone dislike such a great educational video!

@boratsagdiyev3936 3 жыл бұрын

People are weird. Maybe they just missed the like button because they were so amazed.

@dr.ahmedjabbar265 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@SushrutPhutane 4 жыл бұрын

Whole world upset on sitting at home.... Meanwhile Scott : Finally I have time to complete all my pending projects 🙃

@greatscottlab 4 жыл бұрын

True😅

@wunderwaffeyt4077 4 жыл бұрын

@@greatscottlab dude I'm jealous. I can't do electronics or robotics since I need materials from Manila which is currently in lockdown. I'm bored

@oniruddhoalam2039 4 жыл бұрын

@@wunderwaffeyt4077 Make the plans now.

@wunderwaffeyt4077 4 жыл бұрын

@@oniruddhoalam2039 already done dude. I just need the materials

@progamermat 3 жыл бұрын

Would Love to see more on using FPGA for video application.

@c_sid 4 жыл бұрын

Hi great Scott can you recommend some training in learning vhdl and fpga for beginners,thanks 🙏🏻

@edgeeffect 4 жыл бұрын

Good video.... you managed to give a good overview of FPGA without either over-simplifying or over-complexifying..... You could have gone into a bit more detail with the VGA stuff though... I'd love to see someone go into the level of detail that Ben Eater did with his "World's worst VGA" series... but for a better FPGA solution. Another option here is to use a Parallax Propeller microController.... relatively cheap and drives a VGA rather well. These boards do look interesting though, especially as you can use entirely open-source (and therefore "Linux friendly") tools to develop and program their "B-series" boards.

@Davidslabofficial 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Great Scott i have a question that can i use b3 10w compact charger to charge 3s lipo battery pack and 18650 cells 3s battery pack? Directly with this charger without bms on battery pack? Thank you ❤️

@alexanderzohrens2945 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Scotty Why did you not use a Raspberry PI for your project with an normal Monitor-output? The Raspberry PI has already all on board you will need.

@retrozvoc6189 4 жыл бұрын

This is some neat stuff! But please tell me is this compatible with the MIT license? I want to make sure that GPL won't stain my projects whether hardware (PCB or FPGA) or software and that I have no royalties to pay.

@ritvarsrizikovs7117 4 жыл бұрын

Looks very intresting Should be very usefull to learn how to convert old osciloscope CRT signals using FPGA to VGA signal. I have HP 54501A digital osciloscope, and I would love to replace CRT lamp with some LCD screen or at least create VGA output to monitor.

@Drxxx 4 жыл бұрын

great video!! i like it

@cdg_-dz8qb 4 жыл бұрын

i know some 40pin ttl screen use a similar way to print a screen. they have a vsync, hsync, clk and instead of using an analog signal they use 24bits of digital color so its easyer to drive the with an fpga. they also us a data enable pin to tell when theres is valid data on the bus. So if some want to get into fpga it can be easyer. the downside its a bit more expensive than using an old vga display. Fpga board form sipeed come with the connector for those screen on the board.

@egbertgroot2737 4 жыл бұрын

I am impressed....

@philippjorda4671 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Finally a giod video about vga Monitor. always wanted to do that. Good video! Weitermachen!

@prathambumb5593 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent 👍

@bennguyen1313 3 жыл бұрын

What would be a good platform to learn on? TinyFPGA BX board or Fomu ? For example, the fomu appears to use a RISC-V softcore and uses the ValentyUSB ip core / github smunaut/ice40-playground/tree/usb/cores/usb ) I'm interested in a structured learning material, that goes from zero fpga knowledge, to designing a USB interface! Would also be nice if the workshop covers Migen/MiSoC->LiteX , which seems to flatten the learning curve by allowing the use of Python to generate HDL?!