Pixel Art Tool

Final project for Digital Design Lab that use DE-10 FPGA board and VHDL to create a program that can color blocks on a monitor.

About The Project

• In this project, our goal was to design a tool that would allow the user to “paint” onto the display of a computer monitor
• To accomplish this design, we had to combine our knowledge of VHDL, FPGA, and the DE-10 board, along with new knowledge of VGA, or “Video Graphics Array”
• By combining these concepts, we were able to develop a device that enables the user to move through a grid on the monitor, and apply colors to the blocks on the grid using the buttons and switches on the DE-10 board

View Demo Video

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Built With

• Intel Quartus Prime Lite
• DE-10 Standard FPGA

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Getting Started

1. Create a new Quartus Project
2. Download and add VGA.vhd file to the Quartus project folder

Hardware Requirement

• DE-10 Standard FPGA
• VGA Cable
• Monitor

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Pin Assignment

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Acknowledgments

• [1] daxerz, VGA driver for FPGA in VHDL, YouTube, 2016
• [2] M. Ahad and T. Murphy, Digital Design Lab, https://sites.google.com/georgiasouthern.edu/digitaldesign, 2023
• [3] Terasic Inc., DE10-Standard User Manual, 2003
• [4] O. Drew, Best README.md Template, https://github.com/othneildrew/Best-README-Template/tree/master

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