Video and Vision Processing Suite IP User Guide

ID 683329
Date 3/30/2025
Public
Document Table of Contents
1. About the Video and Vision Processing Suite 2. Getting Started with the Video and Vision Processing IPs 3. Video and Vision Processing IPs Functional Description 4. Video and Vision Processing IP Interfaces 5. Video and Vision Processing IP Registers 6. Video and Vision Processing IPs Software Programming Model 7. Protocol Converter IP 8. 1D LUT IP 9. 3D LUT IP 10. Adaptive Noise Reduction IP 11. Advanced Test Pattern Generator IP 12. AXI-Stream Broadcaster IP 13. Bits per Color Sample Adapter IP 14. Black Level Correction IP 15. Black Level Statistics IP 16. Chroma Key IP 17. Chroma Resampler IP 18. Clipper IP 19. Clocked Video Input IP 20. Clocked Video to Full-Raster Converter IP 21. Clocked Video Output IP 22. Color Plane Manager IP 23. Color Space Converter IP 24. Defective Pixel Correction IP 25. Deinterlacer IP 26. Demosaic IP 27. FIR Filter IP 28. Frame Cleaner IP 29. Full-Raster to Clocked Video Converter IP 30. Full-Raster to Streaming Converter IP 31. Genlock Controller IP 32. Generic Crosspoint IP 33. Genlock Signal Router IP 34. Guard Bands IP 35. Histogram Statistics IP 36. Interlacer IP 37. Mixer IP 38. Pixels in Parallel Converter IP 39. Scaler IP 40. Stream Cleaner IP 41. Switch IP 42. Text Box IP 43. Tone Mapping Operator IP 44. Test Pattern Generator IP 45. Unsharp Mask IP 46. Video and Vision Monitor Intel FPGA IP 47. Video Frame Buffer IP 48. Video Frame Reader Intel FPGA IP 49. Video Frame Writer Intel FPGA IP 50. Video Streaming FIFO IP 51. Video Timing Generator IP 52. Vignette Correction IP 53. Warp IP 54. White Balance Correction IP 55. White Balance Statistics IP 56. Design Security 57. Document Revision History for Video and Vision Processing Suite User Guide

7.2. Protocol Converter IP Parameters

The IP offers compile-time parameters
Table 10.  ParametersThe table lists the parameters that are available to configure the IP in Platform Designer.
Name Values Description
Bits per color sample 8 to 16 Number of bits that represent each color sample
Number of color planes 1 to 4 Number of colors per pixel
Number of pixels in parallel 1 to 8 Number of pixels transmitted per clock cycle. If either the input or output interface use the Avalon Streaming Video protocol, the number of pixels in parallel must be a power of two.
YCbCr 444 color swap On or off Turn on to automatically correct for the color plane ordering differences between Avalon Streaming Video and Intel FPGA Streaming Video when transmitting YCbCr data with 4:4:4 chroma
Control settings
Memory-mapped control interface On or off Turn on to allow the Avalon memory-mapped control agent interface to update settings at run time
Separate clock for control interface On or off Turn on for a separate clock domain for the Avalon memory-mapped control agent interface
Debug features On or off Turn on for the debugging features of the Avalon memory-mapped control agent interface
Pipeline Optimization
Pipeline ready signals On or off Turn on to add extra pipeline registers to the AXI4-Stream or Avalon Streaming ready signals. Turning on this option may make it easier to close timing for the protocol converter and achieve a higher operation clock frequency, but may contribute to additional ALM usage.
Interface Protocols
Input protocol variant Avalon Streaming Video, Intel FPGA Streaming Video Full, or Intel FPGA Streaming Video Lite Select the protocol for the input interface
Output protocol variant Avalon Streaming Video, Intel FPGA Streaming Video Full, or Intel FPGA Streaming Video Lite Select the protocol for the output interface
Avalon Streaming Video Input Settings
How Avalon-ST Video user packets are handled No user packets expected at the input or Discard all user packets received Select how the IP processes user packets if the input protocol is Avalon Streaming Video. If you do not expect the input stream to contain any user packets, you can select No user packets expected at the input and save the ALM resources required to discard these packets
Video color space RGB or YCbCr If the input protocol is Avalon Streaming Video and you do not turn on Avalon memory-mapped control agent interface, you must specify the color space of the incoming video
Video chroma sampling 444, 422 or 420 If the input protocol is Avalon Streaming Video and you turn off Avalon memory-mapped control agent interface, you must specify the chroma sampling of the incoming video
Intel FPGA Streaming Video Lite input settings
Enable low latency mode On or off If the input protocol is Intel FPGA Streaming Video this parameter determines the behavior of the Protocol Converter at the end of each video frame.
Intel FPGA Streaming Video Full input settings
How Intel FPGA Streaming Video aux packets are handled Disable aux input, Discard all aux packets received, Pass all aux packets through to the output Select how the IP processes auxiliary packets if the input protocol is Intel FPGA Streaming Video.
Figure 12. Protocol Converter GUI