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Display Interface
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RAMDAC
sizes of display: a 640x480 pixel display using 8 bits per pixel; and a 1024
x 900 display using 16 bits per pixel. The framebuffer is considered in the
illustration as a rectangular area with a horizontal dimension equivalent to
the horizontal resolution of the display. In both examples there results an
undesplayed area of the framebuffer memory which can be used for other
data storage.
11.4
RAMDAC
The RGB528 Palette DAC (RAMDAC) is a highly integrated device that
combines color palettes, a hardware cursor, digital outputs to drive an LCD
display panel, three digital to analog converters to drive a CRT display, and
a clock generator.
The the SPARCbook 3 implementation, the device supports a 64-bit pixel
data bus from the frame buffer; twenty-four of upper 64 data pins are
dual-function and are used as digital outputs to support the TFT display.
Figure 11-5 RAMDAC Architecture
TFT Data
Red
Green
Blue
MUX
Bypass
3x256x8
Palette
1x24
Border
64x64x2
Digital
Output
Cursor
RAM
3x24
Cursor
Palette
Pixel Data
64
3x8
24
8
DAC
Registers
Palette
Data
Syncs
Blanking
Host Interface
Data
Register
Selects
Power 9100
8
8
24
24
24
24
Latch/
MUX
DAC
DAC
External CRT
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