I am in a need of connecting a PC monitor using 8051. Here the purpose is to connect a monitor additional to the PC monitor so that it can display same as on the master monitor. Is it possible? Any one can suggest a way to connect a monitor without additional VGA card? Expecting your valuable suggestions and opinions. Please Help me.
Google for ARM and LCD controller, and you will find anumber of links:
"Real" products: www.tridentdisplays.co.uk/.../arm.html
www.arm.com/.../435.html
findarticles.com/.../ai_50263962
www.linuxdevices.com/.../PD5343937505.html
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Hobby projects: www.hobby-robotics.com/.../
jcx.systronix.com/.../lego-arm.htm
Note: Not any of these links are "good". They are random links from google, and just examples of what you will find if you decide to google. As you see, there are many examples and solutions available. Look at them. Visit home page of the individual manufacturers and see if they have newer/better chips, since the links at least proves that they work with products similar to what you may be interested in. Remember that a top-rated link in google can still be for an old product, but at least it gives you an idea what to search for. Call/mail a component distributor or application engineer and check what chips you can buy development boards for, and what development tools are available. A number of these systems may run Linux so you may get away with the free gcc tool chain. Some systems may require you to pay for their "packaging" of Linux together with a bit of applicatino notes and demo applications. However, if you want to learn, you have to be pro-active. You have to hunt for information - not by asking but by searching and reading. First when you have searched and read will you have the knowledge to ask any relevant questions.
But your initial goal is to write down on a paper what your goal is. A real company develop a product based on a specific requirement. If you want to learn, then you should set up specific requirements so that you can have a purpose when you search for components to use and when you work with the software.
Sir, I decided to use ARM922T for my application. But which software is best suited for development activities. So many development software found in internet.But I don't know which one have good IDE and more user friendly.Can you suggest one? thanks.
Which ARM922T? Many manufacturers have chips with this core. You want a chip with display controller.
How did you make your decision? Have you really spent any time considering other alternatives?
You ask about development tools. Why? Since this is a hobby project, it isn't the 1k wolume cost of the chip that is important. What is important is that you get a development board and development tools to a reasonable cost. It is _very_ expensive if you are going to do your own PCB. You can't solder BGA chips and it is very hard to solder fine-pitch chips unless you got good equipment and knowledge how to use them.
So, before you chose your ARM - what work did you do to find out the best development board and if you can use a free compiler or if you need to buy one? How much time did you spend to see if there are any OS available? Or did you select chip based on the first link you read, without actually making a list with +/- votes for different criteria for a number of alternatives? You say that you want to learn: Learn by doing. If the project is going to cost a number of weeks or months of your time, you should definitely spend a couple of days on deciding what chip to use, what development board to use, what compiler to use, and what OS to use, how the PC should distribute display data, ...
If you do not spend time making these decisions, you may end up with a processor where the only available development board costs USD 5000, and where you have to spend as much on the compiler. That is quite expensive for a hobby project that you may fail to finish into a working product.