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24 alternatives to Open-source, configurable HDMI output for FPGAs

Send video/audio over HDMI on an FPGA. Contribute to hdl-util/hdmi development by creating an account on GitHub.

This project provides an open-source, configurable HDMI output solution for FPGAs, enabling developers to add video display capabilities to their FPGA designs. It allows engineers and hobbyists working with… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open-source, configurable HDMI output for FPGAs launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hello! I'm Byran. I spent the past ~6 months engineering a laptop from scratch. It's fully open-source on GH at: https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop

    2025 · byran.ee · its alternatives →

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    un0rick is a open-source ultrasound project.

    2018 · un0rick.cc · its alternatives →

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    I've been hacking away lately, and I'm now proud to show off my newest project - The Icepi Zero! In case you don't know what an FPGA is, this phrase summarizes it perfectly: "FPGAs work like this. You don't tell them what to do, you tell them what to BE." You don't program them, but you rewrite the circuits they contain! So I've made a PCB that carries an ECP5 FPGA, and has a raspberry pi zero footprint. It also has a few improvements! Notably the 2 USB b ports are replaced with 3 USB C ports, and it has multiple LEDs. This board can output HDMI, read from a uSD, use a SDRAM and much more.…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Over the past ~1.5 years, I built an open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld that can play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges. To my knowledge, there isn't an existing open-source FPGA emulator that can play physical cartridges like this. One of my main goals was to do all of the pieces myself, and be able to understand every component of it, so I designed my own PCB, wrote the firmware, wrote a Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator for the FPGA (using the Chisel HDL), and designed a 3D-printed case. I detailed the design and development process in the…

    2025 · eli.lipsitz.net · its alternatives →

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    CHIP-8 console on FPGA. Contribute to pwmarcz/fpga-chip8 development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Adventures in hardware hacking, low-level software, FPGAs, and more!

    2019 · craigjb.com · its alternatives →

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    Pi4 dual display/4K and HEVC/H265 support - the info-beamer blog

    2019 · info-beamer.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn digital hardware design in the browser: write VHDL and SystemVerilog, simulate, read waveforms, and synthesize to a netlist. No installation required.

    Jul 2026 · risingedge.pro · its alternatives →

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    VGA/TV display on Raspberry Pico (Linux/cmake). Contribute to codaris/picovga-cmake development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A pipelined RISCV implementation in VHDL. Contribute to inforichland/freezing-spice development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    FFmpeg wrapper providing simple, cross-platform Video I/O, GIF Creation, and Webcam Streaming in Go - AlexEidt/Vidio

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I am making a virtual HDMI monitor using Viture Pro XR glasses and an SBC ( currently OrangePi 5 Plus because it has HDMI-in ). What it does is map the frames from the HDMI input onto a virtual display that is controlled by the IMU data from the glasses ( 3DOF only ). I've put AR in quotes in the title because many won't view those display glasses as true AR but by tracking the head movement it comes close. I am trying to build kind of a "low cost" version of a virtual screen that acts like a monitor and can be connected to anything that has an HDMI output I started off using the official…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    [Experimental] Deploy and stream games/apps in the cloud. Use our GPUs or bring your own. - nestrilabs/nestri

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We've just launched v2.5 of SatCat5, the open-source FPGA Ethernet switch [1]. SatCat5 contains various FPGA building blocks that let you build a custom mixed-media Ethernet switch. It was originally intended for cubesats [2] but has many other potential applications. The headline feature for this release is support for the IEEE-1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP). SatCat5 has demonstrated end-to-end synchronization to within 50 ps-rms, which is approaching the world-leading performance of CERN's White Rabbit Project [3]. Except we're doing time-transfer over regular, non-synchronous…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open soft/hardware HDMI streaming based on Firefox OS.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'm Fischer, and I'm super stoked to share a project that I've been working on for a little over a year: Manta, an open-source, cross-platform, vendor-independent tool for debugging and rapid prototyping with FPGAs. This was originally my Master's Thesis at MIT, where I developed it for our course on FPGA design. We needed an alternative to vendor debugging tools, which only supported x86 machines running Windows or Linux. We were able to patch in macOS support with VMs, but as more students came bringing ARM-based devices, we needed a new tool. So I developed this. It's called Manta,…

    2024 · fischermoseley.github.io · its alternatives →

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    DAN64 is a open software and open hardware project to build an 8-bit microcomputer using an AVR microcontroller.

    2015 · usebox.net · its alternatives →

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    Modo▲148

    I’ve built hardware projects for years, and the gap between “I want X” and “parts ordered, files ready to print” always took weeks. Modo compresses that. Describe what you want (e.g. “a portable CO2 monitor with a display and buzzer”) and it generates: - A bill of materials with real components (MPNs, not hallucinated parts) - A printable enclosure generated from actual part dimensions - Wiring diagrams, firmware boilerplate, and assembly instructions - Design validation (power budget, pin conflicts, mechanical fit) Everything streams in real time as each phase completes. The key idea is…

    Jan 2026 · modo.is · its alternatives →

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    An open source IoT LED display.

    2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    An open source fantasy game console for building 8-bit games

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Open-source code-first video for AGI era

    7d ago · framefields.dev · its alternatives →

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    Opensource IPTV service based on gstreamer can relay/encode/shift streams and many many other features.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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