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Basys2™ FPGA Board Reference Manual

VGA Port

The Basys 2 board uses 10 FPGA signals to create a VGA port with 8-bit color and the two standard sync signals (HS

– Horizontal Sync, and VS – Vertical Sync). The color signals use resistor-divider circuits that work in conjunction

with the 75-ohm termination resistance of the VGA display to create eight signal levels on the red and green VGA

signals, and four on blue (the human eye is less sensitive to blue levels). This circuit, shown in figure 13, produces

video color signals that proceed in equal increments between 0V (fully off) and 0.7V (fully on). A video controller

circuit must be created in the FPGA to drive the sync and color signals with the correct timing in order to produce a

working display system.

6.2

VGA System Timing

VGA signal timings are specified, published, copyrighted and sold by the VESA organization (www.vesa.org). The

following VGA system timing information is provided as an example of how a VGA monitor might be driven in 640

by 480 mode. For more precise information, or for information on other VGA frequencies, refer to documentation

available at the VESA website.

CRT-based VGA displays use amplitude-modulated moving electron beams (or cathode rays) to display information

on a phosphor-coated screen. LCD displays use an array of switches that can impose a voltage across a small

amount of liquid crystal, thereby changing light permittivity through the crystal on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Although

the following description is limited to CRT displays, LCD displays have evolved to use the same signal timings as

CRT displays (so the "signals" discussion below pertains

to both CRTs and LCDs). Color CRT displays use three

electron beams (one for red, one for blue, and one for

green) to energize the phosphor that coats the inner

side of the display end of a cathode ray tube (see

illustration). Electron beams emanate from "electron

guns" which are finely-pointed heated cathodes placed

in close proximity to a positively charged annular plate

called a "grid". The electrostatic force imposed by the

grid pulls rays of energized electrons from the

cathodes, and those rays are fed by the current that

flows into the cathodes. These particle rays are initially

accelerated towards the grid, but they soon fall under

the influence of the much larger electrostatic force

that results from the entire phosphor-coated display

surface of the CRT being charged to 20kV (or more).

The rays are focused to a fine beam as they pass

through the center of the grids, and then they accelerate to impact on the phosphor-coated display surface. The

phosphor surface glows brightly at the impact point, and it continues to glow for several hundred microseconds

after the beam is removed. The larger the current fed into the cathode, the brighter the phosphor will glow.

Between the grid and the display surface, the beam passes through the neck of the CRT where two coils of wire

produce orthogonal electromagnetic fields. Because cathode rays are composed of charged particles (electrons),

they can be deflected by these magnetic fields. Current waveforms are passed through the coils to produce

magnetic fields that interact with the cathode rays and cause them to transverse the display surface in a "raster"

pattern, horizontally from left to right and vertically from top to bottom. As the cathode ray moves over the

surface of the display, the current sent to the electron guns can be increased or decreased to change the

brightness of the display at the cathode ray impact point.

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Anode (entire screen)

Cathode ray tube

Deflection coils

Cathode ray

High voltage

deflection

supply (>20kV)

control

Figure 14. CRT deflection system

Electron guns

Grid

(Red, Blue, Green)

R,G,B signals

(to guns)

grid

gun

control

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VGA

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