I'm going to buy the Spartan 6 SP601 development board since it's the board that I can afford and will fit my design but it lacks a VGA/DVI connector and to test my code, I'll need to send data to a monitor.
My question: Is there any USB/UART to VGA converters available so I can send the data by USB then it's converted to be shown on a monitor ?!
Re: Spartan 6 SP601 board .. Need to connect it to a monitor
Cool, thanks Farhad.
I think this method is suitable when I am going to design my board using the spartan 6 chip, but in case I already have the board, how can I connect the IO to a VGA port ?! In Spartan 3E for example, there already exist a VGA port, but in SP601 it does not !
Re: Spartan 6 SP601 board .. Need to connect it to a monitor
It all depends on what you want to do, if this is only for proof of concept then you need 5 wires out of the FPGA, a few resistors and a VGA connector, then you have VGA support on your board. For that you can use the "8 User I/O (Digilent 2x6 Header)" on that board.
This connector is J13 on the board and it is very simple to use, I am sure you can get up to 800x600x3 bits out of those signals without major issues.