[Coco] Stable colours

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

Altera just announced the launch of Max-10 with integrated ADCs! This must
be the heaven for a VGA adapter.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1324137&_mc=RSS_EET_EDT

30 dollars the kit ? This one worth trying...

Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:21 PM, lciotti1 <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would be willing to help with a custom board layout... assuming it is
> not a huge rush.
>
>  Mark Marlette <mailto:mmarlette at frontiernet.net>
>> September 30, 2014 at 5:19 PM
>>
>> See that FPGA is available in a TQFP, $13 or something like that.
>>
>> I would just make your own board instead of all the cables = noise, etc,
>> especially in video!
>>
>>
>> Mark Marlette
>> http://www.cloud9tech.com
>> mark at cloud9tech.com
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Stable colours
>>
>>
>> or these one:
>>
>> http://www.ebay.ca/itm/ALTERA-FPGA-Cyclone-II-EP2C5T144-
>> Minimum-System-Development-Board-/301303366478?pt=LH_
>> DefaultDomain_0&hash=item462714834e
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>> more suitable with a 50Mhz clock. Same as altera de0-nano.
>>
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>> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
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>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
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>> Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <mailto:retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
>> September 30, 2014 at 9:55 AM
>> Well if you go for a DE0-Nano it costs 80 dollars. The daugher board is
>> pretty simple, 10 dollars and the components pretty available: bunch of
>> resistors, a variable resistors, a small protoboard and a VGA connector
>> and
>> a stackable 40 pin header. Got everything from a local store.
>>
>> But it could be done on a CPLD for reduction costs. I don't have the tools
>> for CPLD development, nor I don't make an idea how to solder a FBGA chip .
>> Mark Marlette ? Darren A. ? Who else ?
>>
>> It would require a CPLD with 550 LEs, 16K bits of RAM and a external SRAM
>> with 512Kbytes or a SDRAM as the Altera. For a SRAM the code must be
>> changed since the DE0-Nano has only SDRAM.
>>
>> Don't know if that would beat the 80 dollars asked by the Altera. But
>> Daren
>> made de SDC for a 50 bucks cost. Maybe that would be a reasonable price.
>>
>> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>>
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>> Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <mailto:retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
>> September 30, 2014 at 8:02 AM
>> colours as we say in canada:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgr5dHvswM
>>
>> Nick Marentes will love my scanlines :)
>>
>>
>>
>> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>>
>>
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