On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 08:04 +0100, Steve Wiseman wrote:
> On Tue 24/05/11 07:16 , "P.J.G. Long" <pjgl2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> (I'm trying to think of a time when you'd want both Balloon's FPGA
> resource, and a genuine framebuffered, pixel-painting display on a TV,
> and I can't. Something that needed the 3D graphics engine of the OMAP,
> on a projector, maybe?)
The only case I could think of was an industrial control application
(not one I'm perusing at the moment) where I was interested in using an
off the shelf LCD screen to display status on some power electronics
systems.
The Balloon was a contender for the embedded processor, but you are
right - that one would have to be careful not to let the graphics swamp
things.
As a "might be relevant" argument, the Begale board has an HDMI
connector (which actually talks DVI). Whilst its not the hard use-case
you asked for, if it meant a user not choosing Beagle over Balloon, that
would presumably be some sort of win.
Best wishes,
--
Peter Clifton
Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA
Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)
Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)
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