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Arty Z7 HDMI overlay -- struggling with colors -- getting a rainbow effect instead of white


rehsd

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I am currently working on a small project that requires rendering text and shapes to the HDMI output. I am using an Arty Z7-20. While I have the basic content rendering fine, I am struggling to get the colors I would expect. I am trying to get white, but I am running into an issue where the output is not white but banded with different colors. Below, I would expect a clean white for all characters and all rectangles, but the color varies column by column.

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Also, I haven't been able to figure out how to get anything other than white, black, or grey; I end up with odd patterns. I expect I am either not writing the appropriate color data to the appropriate bytes, the wrong number of bytes, or something in the block design is misconfigured. I started with the HDMI Out Demo from Digilent and have added a couple of simple functions in Vitis to draw characters and rectangles. I have tried both an LCD and capturing the video on my PC -- both show similar issues.

I posted a quick video to give a bit more context.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Coding issue, block diagram issue, limitation of the Z7 or of the demo project, other? Thanks!!

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Edit: Here's an output and the corresponding block of code that should fill a 100x100 region with red. I get red on the first vertical column, but then gaps moving to the right. If I use 0xFFFFFFFF for the color, I will get a solid white region.

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I was able to resolve this with the help of captain_wiggles_ over on r/FPGA. He/she pointed out that my frame pointer was a 32-bit pointer. I changed it to an 8-bit pointer and am writing the three bytes for red, green, and blue independently. Here is an updated function that prints a nice yellow box:

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