This was the VGA standard. It was not built on a CRT controller; instead, the heart of the VGA chipset was a custom ASIC, a crystal, a bit of video RAM, and a digital to analog converter.

Feeling nostalgic we presume, [Glen Kleinschmidt] set out to build a 640x480x64 VGA controller card from discrete logic chips. If we ignore the 512Kx8 Cypress SRAM video memory, he succeeds ...

VGA Display: VGA monitor for the images restitution which have ... The second option is to use the monitor program which is loaded into the RAM of the NIOS II controller. This method is used during ...