Yeah I always assume VGA to HDMI is doable externally with a dongle. It just seems a shame to have whole-ass digital signals on the output, and then shovel them through a DAC and ADC on their way to the monitor :) But the low end ECP5s don't have TMDS serdes, so I don't know if the gate cost is worth it.
I have no idea how S-video works in the details, but skimming wikipedia, it'd need a similar YPbPr translator as for composite, and then just different mixing. Maybe!
Dave Anderson
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