My design is around 8k LE but it is a full VGA - you might look at the original graphics gremlin MDA design to get an idea of the minimum necessary for a text mode.

I have a VGA core, which works on the graphics gremlin. This is for debugging that core but also for expanding beyond what the Gremlin can do - think of it like connecting a motherboard to a rapid prototyping system that has different kinds of memories and an astronomical gate limit. :)

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooourns

Why don’t you visit my timeline instead

for the moment, a POST card (watching and displaying writes to port 80)

No differential signaling today, Rue.

Altera's HSMC has 3 banks:
Bank 1 connects directly to gigabit transceivers, those can't be used as GPIO.
Banks 2 and 3 connect to standard FPGA I/O, some of which could be configured to be differential across paired pins.
I am using banks 2+3 as level-shifted standard I/O, and speaking ISA bus.

Jealous

Yep, finally building it to test the VGA core so it can target both the original and HDMI version.

I remember :)

yes

it'll do that when DNS is down but IP is working fine

this is the part where I'm reminded why a stainless steel stencil is worthwhile

Mouser has mine back to 2015 but this is a great idea - I doubt digikey does the same!

I am not in the hospital, anon

I have a couple monitors wall mounted to save space
bsky.app/profile/fura...

oh, you thought it was a vitals monitor because it's wall mounted?

no this is just how steve's games looked