An Object-Oriented Verification Technique of FPGA-based Adjustment Systems for Video Graphics Accelerators

Abstract

Video graphics array (VGA) is a still commonly used display interface standard in embedded systems. Due to traditional microprocessor cannot provide timings for high-resolution VGA interface it is often implemented as a part of FPGA-based image processing flow. The main problem is that FPGA-based project need to be covered with an adequate set of tests which allow verifying the functionality the whole image processing flow even without availability of real FPGA IC and/or monitor. This, in turn, remains difficult without the visualization of resulted image. A hardware verification technique of digital VGA generator synthesized on the FPGA basis that uses of an unsynthesized subset of the System Verilog language has been proposed in this paper. A full-featured object-oriented package for BMP-files processing is developed and its integration inside the FPGA-project is shown. Moreover, the synthesizable part of design has been hardware tested on the DE10-Lite board.