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Nandland Go Board Project 9 – Introduction to VGA

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Learn how VGA works. See how the Go Board can drive test patterns out to the VGA monitor. Code is included for both VHDL and Verilog solutions. This is the base code that will be required for creating more advanced VGA projects like PONG.

VHDL Simulation Environment (EDA Playground):
http://www.edaplayground.com/x/6Hun

Verilog Simulation Environment (EDA Playground):
http://www.edaplayground.com/x/Uct

For the text version of this project (and full code):
https://www.nandland.com/goboard/vga-introduction-test-patterns.html

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