Re: [oc] VGA Interface

[Steve Wilson <stevew@homeaddress.org>]

I stand corrected - thank you much for the pointers. I honestly didn't find 
anything the last time I looked, but didn't get to ADI. TI seems only have a 
few, and they have subsummed Burr-Brown.  I don't even get a hit on 
Burr-brown with my browser.

Steve Wilson

On Thursday 21 March 2002 22:16, you wrote:
> >Oddly - last I looked about 12 months ago there are NOT alot of RAMDAC's
> > on the market anymore.  This has all  moved "on-chip" with all the
> > high-end graphics manufacturers now so this is a VERY hard item to find.
>
> Sorry I do not agree.
>
> Analog devices and Burr-Brown (now Texas Instruments) - and probably more -
> still make high-end (Tripple)DACs and RAM-DACs. There are many video
> applications requiring Video-DACs which do not use standard graphics chips,
> this is the market for these devices.
>
> Check their website. Oddly enough they manufacture more devices than are
> listed on their web. But you'll get the idea.
>
> >There are some CCIR601 or maybe it's CCIR665 (it has been 12 months)
> > around but this is a different standard. If I recall, they are all
> > favoring YUV now.
>
> Not true again. YUV is a favorite for digital video (as in digital PAL and
> digital NTSC), but not for video-displays. This is - and probably will be -
> RGB, becuase monitors work with RGB colors.
>
> >Do the folks who did the core have somthing they can recommend that I'm
> > not aware of, and if so - could they please make it public!
>
> Richard
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