I work at a company that develops industrial Ethernet hardware. I'm using the STM32F4 series and the free version of Attolic, be aware there is a bit of a learning curve but I also do recommend it. Also check out the 400MHz STM32F7 series (1MB of embedded RAM! Big enough to fit a full framebuffer), it is still pretty new, they are supposed to release a dev kit later this year. On Saturday, July 8, 2017, c h wrote: > On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Bob Blick > wrote: > > > > The STM32F411 is quite capable, don't know anything about generating VG= A > but it sounds like a cool idea. > >>> > > Thank you for the reply. > > At 640*480*50Hz it's about 12 MHz pixel rate. Hackaday says it looks > doable. > 800 X 600 VGA WITH THE STM32F4 by: Brian Benchoff January 4, 2015 > hackaday.com/2015/01/04/800-x-600-vga-with-the-stm32f4 > > The project is educational, we can combine 4 horizontal pixels, reducing > the rate to 3MHz. And we could shift from 100MHz STM32F411 to > 180MHz STM32F446 Nucleo board, which is even cheaper here, > > Theoretically, later we could (as they say in "evil empire") refactor it > into 3 or 4 loosely coupled, coarse grained tire design. > - 1st tire: Analog front-end with digital output through optics; > - 2nd and 3d tires: logic and human input; > - 4th: monitor with stm32 based VGA driver to just display, say, 1000 > points per channel. > > > > If you get tired of mbed or want a full dev and debug package I heartil= y > recommend Atollic TrueStudio. The free edition is very nice. Easy to > install and they have lots of videos and papers on their website. Also > STMCubeMX is good for getting your clocks and peripherals set up. I use t= he > standalone version but they also have a plugin for TrueStudio. > >>> > > Agreed on STMCubeMX. Regarding the toolchain, I started SW4STM32 System > Workbench by ST for STM32 already. Still, Atollic TrueStudio looks to be = a > great option too. > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 Jason White --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .