[Open-graphics] Google summer of code

[André Pouliot]

Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
> On 3/11/08, André Pouliot <andre.pouliot at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Following a discussion between Kenneth and me, we would like to add the
>>  creation of a VGA core written in verilog for the GSoC ideas.
>>
>>  I know we were planning on doing VGA via software emulation with the HQ.
>>  Doing it as a GSoC project also allows us to explore the design of a VGA
>>  core without taking key developers away from the critical path. Doing an
>>  hardware implementation would allow to see the space requirement and
>>  possibly support more option for VGA. At the same time it would allow
>>  for 2 different approach to be tested.
>>     
>
> Are you suggesting a more direct hardware implementation?  One of the
> reasons I suggested using HQ is that it MIGHT actually be smaller.  In
> reality, what it does is trade gates for block RAM cells, but that's
> not a bad tradeoff.
>   
Yes that's exactly what we are suggesting. We know the reason why doing 
it with HQ, but we were looking for the GSoC ideas and there wasn't one 
doing RTL. So we found an idea of something that will be nice to have, 
but if nobody present itself and do it the project continue as before.