Text video driver

> Just purchased and received a Xilinx Spartan-3E starter kit.  Trying
> to teach myself from all the information available on the web...  It's
> the fastest or densest FPGA board, but seems to be the best starter
> board for the ~$150 price range I found with a decent (500+K gate
> equiv) and a reasonable amount of on board interfaces (including
> 10/100 Ethernet phy) to test with....
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> I did find the full VGA cores on the opencores site.  I am wondering
> if anyone has a text based video core they could point me to.  (If it
> matched the 8 color (3 bit) of the starter kit that would be ideal).
> I want to keep the resources for video to a minimum, but I do want to
> provide a console and/or status display.  If not, I'll try to create
> one and make it available for everyone to critique...  (If I do it, it
> will probably not be pretty...  software guy trying to do hardware
> logic for the first time...)
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> If anyone has any pointers to reference designs or sample projects of
> any kind that will easily work with this board, let me know.
> (Especially if they use either the Ethernet or video ports.
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