So, in capstone, if you're designing an embedded application that needs to drive a large display, should you use an MCU or FPGA?
YOU SHOULD USE AN MCU!!! A more powerful one than the MSP430, but an MCU nonetheless. FPGAs are good for applications that absolutely must be high-speed, low-power. Putting embedded linux on an MCU and using their device driver libraries would be a much better choice both cost and ease-of-development-wise if you wanted to do something like this in CAPSTONE.
So, in capstone, if you're designing an embedded application that needs to drive a large display, should you use an MCU or FPGA?
YOU SHOULD USE AN MCU!!! A more powerful one than the MSP430, but an MCU nonetheless. FPGAs are good for applications that absolutely must be high-speed, low-power. Putting embedded linux on an MCU and using their device driver libraries would be a much better choice both cost and ease-of-development-wise if you wanted to do something like this in CAPSTONE.