hi, I need some simple example in VHDL for LCD display 16x2 on board "Xilinx Spartan 3AN" I need inspiration to get started programming. Please someone advice me how to write for example character "A" on the screen.
The Spartan 3AN board has an eight-bit data interface to the character LCD. Other Xilinx boards use a four-bit interface. As shown in Figure 5-1, the Spartan-3A/3AN Starter Kit board supports both an eight-bit and a four-bit interface for compatibility reasons, for existing reference designs are already built around a four-bit interface.
If you don't already have a copy of the User Guide for the Spartan 3AN Board, download a copy. You'll need to build the UCF from the information contained in the PDF.
You should be able to download the UG for the board and build a UCF, use the VHDL sample code for your LCD from Digilent and implement a working interface.
Also Xilinx has a resource design which makes use of the LCD, code and docs: