Board Design nearing completion added VGA:
I removed the unnecessary termination resistors since my simulations showed they were not needed. For more information about that please see my previous posts. I also fixed the GND-VSS problem. Seems I had both however they were unconnected.For Diagnostic purposes I added the VGA D-sub connector and D to A ladder resistors for red(2:0) green(2:0) and blue(1:0) digital signals. H_sync and V_sync are connected directly from outputs on the FPGA. I will need one of the two PLLs on the FPGA configured to 108 MHz for the VGA signaling. Its good that this FPGA has two PLLs.
I have a stand alone FPGA card that I will use to test the VGA capability before having this first pass experimental board created. If I don't have VGA working there is no way to tell what is going on inside the system and so a board without VGA capabilities is completely useless.

As can be seen above I have labeled the board v1.00x where x indicates that this is an experimental board for the purpose of researching the interface and debugging. The VGA interface will be very simple. nothing fancy; only for showing incoming RX signals from the PHY so as to respond to enumeration and training messages. The board is supposed to be 4-layer but I have chosen to work with a 2-layer board initially for cost reasons. I will continue to do so on these experimental board versions as long as it can not be of any more use experimentally. It is possible that I will find out that the 2-layer board is of no use the very first pass. However it is so cheap to build a 2-layer board that it is worth the risk.
A Note to self: I must also add noise decoupling capacitance on 3.3v and 1.5v voltage regulator input pins. Just so I don't forget.
Comments are welcome and appreciated.
Will
www.c1960.net
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