Evatronix Releases High Resolution Display Controller IP Core.

The controller enables straightforward video/image streaming through DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI and VGA interfaces.

Bielsko-Biala, Poland, March 11th, 2009 – The Silicon Intellectual Property (IP) provider, Evatronix SA, announced today today the release of DISPLAY-CTRL – a High Resolution Display Controller IP core for PC, home video, mobile and industrial applications. The controller supports all common display formats, from QVGA to WUXGA and Full HD resolutions.

“Our display controller has been designed to support a wide range of AMBA® AHB-based video application System-on-Chips,“ said Grzegorz Potok, IP core developer.

“With the variety of available interfaces and resolutions, the DISPLAY-CTRL is a perfect solution for an SoC design where visual experience matters.“

The controller accepts RGB 24 or 15 bits per pixel input color formats and features a complete set of programmable horizontal and vertical timing parameters, i.e. front porch,back porch and sync intervals. For seamless system bus integration, the core is delivered with a native AMBA® AHB bus master/slave interface and a programmable FIFO controller. Both depth and near- full level parameters for the FIFO are configurable, as is the endianess of the interface.

The DISPLAY-CTRL IP core has been extensively tested for compliance with VESA and EIA/CEA standards (HD resolutions). When working in 1920x1200 resolution with 60 Hz refresh rate, the controller reaches the speed of 154 MHz. The following video DAC devices have been used for DISPLAY-CTRL hardware verification: DVI Transmitter CH7301C from Chrontel and ADV7120 from Analog Devices. DISPLAY-CTRL external interface matches the AD9889B from Analog Devices for HDMI connection, and ST7787 from Sitronix for TFT panel.

Availability

The DISPLAY-CTRL Controller is available for licensing now. The IP core is delivered as a Verilog source code with a set of scripts and macros for simulation/synthesis support. An optional reference design for a proprietary evaluation board facilitates application development.