Another possibility (single chip solution) -
No bitbanging necessary, or How to Drive a VGA Monitor on a PSoC 5LP w/Verilog - Page 1
www.eevblog.com
Here is another, but you would need help getting the project setup for the IDE. Not rocket
science but if you have never worked with this IDE, PSOC Creator, you would need assist.
Basically PSOC allows custom components to be created (a component in PSOC terminology
is an onchip resource created in its fabric, in addition to the 100+ it already has in its library).
Simple VGA component + munching square example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munching_square
https://community.cypress.com/external-link.jspa?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munching_square In operation
$10 board to do the dev, Compiler and IDE free.
Attached a catalog of its internal resources. And community has other additions -
**broken link removed**
Note the TV Test Card Generator in
rjenkinsgb post would be easy to do all in a PSOC.
The only small issue is translating a character generator ROM chip in original design into a a array in FLASH
then using PSOC DMA to move the character out to screen. Eg. getting the table created and into code base.
But I am confident a database/excel listing out there that could be converted into IDE array for the compiler.
Regards, Dana.