Re: VGA / USB Development questions

["Tristan Mumford" <nintendologist@nospam.gmail.nospam.com>]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:01:39 -0800, KPR wrote:

> I have had some spare time on my hands and started to do a little
> reading on PICS..  I have been looking at the propellerchip (
> parallax.com ) and this is one hell of a chip for 13 USD..
> 
> The Dev/demo board (130 USD) has composite out, vga out, stereo out
> with amplifier, a usb port for programming 64K memory 32 ram/ 32 rom
> and even 2k of processor memory .. this thing has 8 processors or what
> they call cogs.. and 32 i/o lines..
> 
> something like this is amazing .. has anyone else seen this / used this
> etc..
> 
> I am curious, couldn't a unit like this be used to watch the apple ][
> memory bus and internally convert it to a vga signal??
Perhaps...
It's much better suited to a CPLD or FPGA though. Although a uC could be
used for postprocessing. True, the Parallax chips are pretty powerful, but
I'm not convinced it's the right tool for the job. 


> 
> Same thing goes for the usb portion..

http://microusb.org
Can't ask for better than that. Although I have been considering farming
out the lower level processing to a uC. Problem is in doing this a lot of
flexibility is lost.