Microcontroller VGA output

Hiya,


I am looking into driving a VGA screen from a microcontroller.
I am hoping there may be a way to do this from a PIC or ubicom SX chip,
although very slowly but that is fine.

The display i am wanting to drive is a chLCD screen (kentdisplays.com)
- although they can be supplied with serial interfaces, it would be
preferable for me to drive the screen directly.

It does not need to display ever changing dynamic content and the
refresh rate can be as slow as it needs to be, it will only update the
image on the screen very rarely (days inbetween each update).

Incase you dont know, these kent displays are 'zero power' screens,
which once updated need no power or signal to retain their image, so
refresh rates shouldnt be a problem. Just a single-draw and thats it.

Any help would be great, perhaps there are serial/parallel->vga chips
out there, anybody know of an easy to use VGA chip ?

Thanks,
Alex.

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