/fpga-vt

A video terminal on an FPGA

Primary LanguageVerilogMIT LicenseMIT

This is a simple terminal for the Terasic Cyclone V GX Starter Kit.

It outputs 800x600@60hz on the HDMI port, reads input from a PS/2 keyboard (GPIO28 = CLK, GPIO29 = DATA), sends and receives characters over the USB UART, and is generally working roughly like a VT52. I haven't implemented all control characters yet and actually I'm also using a VT100 font for some reason. In the future it would be nice to execute the VT52 microcode or actually implement a full VT100 as well.

I started from this code and the HDMI bits of it are still unmodified.

You can find a video of it in action here.