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

3.3. IP Debugging Features

If you turn on Memory-mapped control interface for a video and vision processing IP, you can also turn on Debug features.

For lite variants with Debug features on, you can read back any values you write to the control IMG_INFO registers.

Debugging features with full variants allow you to query details of received image information packets. Every time an IP receives an image information packet, the image information fields are stored in a debug IMG_INFO register bank. You can read back this information over the memory-mapped control interface.

In a system that is not behaving as expected the debugging features are a useful debugging tool. If required, when the system is working, the IP can be regenerated in Platform Designer with debugging features off so that the design does not add the area cost of the debugging register bank.

Table 3.  Relative ALM consumption for full variant, lite variant, and debug features (Clipper IPs)The table shows the relative ALM consumption of the clipper IP, with and without debugging features. The clipper parameters are 2 pixels in parallel, 8 bits per color sample, 2 color planes and clipping with offsets. For comparison, the table includes the lite variant Clipper and the VIP Clipper II IP. The table includes timing slack for a clocking target of 333 MHz. The designs use default settings, the Intel Quartus Prime Pro edition version 21.4, and target a Cyclone 10 GX 10CX220YF78015G device The table shows debugging features slightly affect fMAX.
IP ALMs Slack when targeting 333 MHz (ns)
Clipper IP (full) 493 0.481
Clipper IP (full with debug features) 616 0.494
Clipper IP (lite) 394 0.451
VIP Clipper II 670 0.359
Table 4.  Relative timing slack for Clipper IPsThe table shows an artificially aggressive target frequency for the Clipper IP for an Intel Cyclone 10 device of 525 MHz. Turning on Debug features reduces Fmax to 518 MHz. For comparison with a full variant clipper, the table includes a lite variant Clipper and the VIP Clipper II IP. All figures using default settings with Intel Quartus Prime Pro edition release 21.4, targeting an Intel Cyclone 10 GX 10CX220YF78015G device
IP ALMs Slack when targeting 525 MHz
ns MHz
Clipper IP (full variant) 494 0.001 525
Clipper IP (full variant with debug features) 614 -0.028 518
Clipper IP (lite variant) 395 0.065 545
VIP Clipper II 672 -0.659 390