Interfacing to a small screen

[q-bertsuit]

Hi,

I bought this TFT screen that id like to use in a project. When I bought it I was under the impression that it would be easy to interface it to a standard VGA source, but this seems not to be the case. The controller for the screen takes an 8 bit parallel input.

Is it possible to interface this type of screen with say, a Raspberry Pi or even my computer, to act as a monitor? Are there any chips you know of that takes HDMI/DVI/VGA and converts it to the parallel RGB type the controller takes? I found a dev board from the same company that can display composite video, but I haven't found anything for VGA.


Thank you

 

[imbichie]

Hi,

Are you looking for this type of chip... Like AD9882 which will give VGA output means RGB data out with Hsyc, Vsync and Blank_EN etc...

http://www.datasheetcatalog.org/datasheet/analogdevices/AD9882_PCB.pdf

If you cant find the solution, can you please describe more about your need... ?

means what is the scenario that you are facing...?

Because the display pannel should need the HSYNC, VSYNC, BLANK_EN pulses with the RGB data (8 bit, 16 bit, 24 bit format....)

 

[xushan2003]

Hi,

I think you need a CPLD and DVI receiver to covert HDMI/DVI to the 8-bit parallel video data. For low resolution DVI/HDMI interface, spartan6 FPGA could be a single chip solution.