According to the fact that portable instrument has more and more reliance on colo-rized LCD displaying devices
a TFT-LCD real-time display controller is designed in this paper. The controller adopts FPGA chips as its hardware core
which is a product XC3S400 of Xilinx Corporation
and embedded 8051 IP core is used as its time control kernel. Internal block RAM resource of FPGA is introduced to initially configure the memory modules needed by IP core. Asynchronous FIFO is applied to realize the speed matching between high speed data flow acquired by FPGA and the slow processing speed of IP core. The controller has a wide range of application