I'm planning a put together a low-end computing system to control multiple hardware. I'm in need of a graphics display and this time, the dot matrix LCDs aren't going to be enough. Instead, I was hoping to use a some kind of flat panel monitor with VGA or SVGA capabilities. To make any use of it, I need something that converts the images I want to display into the VGA signals.
I promised myself I wouldn't reinvent the wheel, so programming my own VGA encoder is a last resort. What I'm looking for is an IC that will let me set up my graphics in some memory-mapped fashion, then send the VGA signals when I'm ready. The problem is, my usual vendors (digikey, etc) don't have anything like that. In fact, I don't even know such a chip would be called. "VGA encoder" maybe? All my searches only turn up VGA converters and amplifiers--nothing for generating both video and sync signals.
Where can I find a chip that does all this?