chevron_left
chevron_right
MOD-VGA : 3.3V Gameduino alike board
Gameduino alike board
- Variant board made by Olimex with PS2 connector
- 3V only (not 5V tolerant)
- Arduino connector
- UEXT connector
Security policy
(edit with the Customer Reassurance module)
(edit with the Customer Reassurance module)
Delivery policy
(edit with the Customer Reassurance module)
(edit with the Customer Reassurance module)
Return policy
(edit with the Customer Reassurance module)
(edit with the Customer Reassurance module)
Description
3.3V Gameduino board - offer a VGA output to your microcontroler
MOD-VGA is a 3.3V shield based on the popular Gameduino design. The little changes we made were to add a PS2 keyboard, a UEXT connector which allows all of our boards with a UEXT to connect to MOD-VGA and audio output. Also, we made a version with 32MB of SDRAM which allows higher resolutions than the original Gameduino design.
Technical details
- XILINX Spartan XC3S200A
- Requires 3.3V level SPI
- PS2 Keyboard connector
- Audio connector
- VGA connector
- Male UEXT connector plus 10 pin cable for it
- Ready Arduino software support
- Mounted Arduino headers
- FR-4, 1.5 mm, green soldermask, white print
- PCB dimensions: 55.88 x 53.34 mm (2.2 x 2.1")
- MOD-VGA schematic in pdf format revision B
- MOD-VGA schematic and board design for CadSoft's Eagle revision B
Not 5V tolerant
Is this shield compatible with boards that operate only at 5V? Is it possible to use 5V SPI with this shield?
No. This shield doesn't work with 5V SPI, it requires 3.3V SPI. You need to use level shifter to drop down the 5V SPI to lower level. The absolute maximum of the GPIO pins of the XYLINX Spartan-3A is 4.6V. Using 5V SPI logic you would damage MOD-VGA shield.
Tutorial
- MOD-VGA library for MicroPython (MCHobby, GitHub)
- Wire an UEXT connector to a Pyboard (Wiki, french & english)
- MOD-VGA user's manual (Olimex, English)
- Arduino library for MOD-VGA32 - refer to the README.txt inside
- The official web site of the original Gameduino
- Python package for Gameduino developper
- Developping Frogger game on Gameduino for Arduino
- Gameduino 2 Cookbook (pdf)
Data sheet
