Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Jan 2008 17:00 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Kerneltrap has an interview with the creator of project VGA. "The project aims to develop a simple, low budget, open source, VGA compatible video card available this year. Michael is also a member of the Open Graphics Project, but started Project VGA in order to get something affordable on the market as soon as possible."
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Sad that the original grand project appears to have failed while this smaller project looks much more promising.
Xilinx/Avnet also has a board with Spartan3s 1000 on it and a Philips triple 10b DAC tda8777 (upto 330MHz), runs about $300 or so and can use PCIe 1x connector. The PCIe IP needed for this can be used on trial. I would guess the Spartan3s might have a tough time driving the VGA anywhere near its max spec so the video output would likely be limited. The Xilinx docs mentions a 25MHz clock for driving at basic VGA 640 resolution, if it could atleast get to 1600x1200, I'd be a lot more interested, put my cpu core in as well.
The PCIe IP though is the hurdle there.