Intel® FPGA Streaming Video Protocol Specification

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Date 5/15/2024
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Document Table of Contents x
1. About the Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol 2. Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol Description 3. Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol Rules 4. Intel FPGA Streaming Video Full-Raster Protocol 5. Document Revision History for Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol Specification
1. About the Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol x
1.1. Protocol Signals 1.2. Data Exchange
2. Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol Description x
2.1. Metapackets (Full Variants) 2.2. Video Packets
2.1. Metapackets (Full Variants) x
2.1.1. Image Information Packets 2.1.2. End-of-Field Packets 2.1.3. Auxiliary Control Packets
2.1.3. Auxiliary Control Packets x
2.1.3.1. Timestamp Packets 2.1.3.2. Register Update Packets 2.1.3.3. Commit Packets 2.1.3.4. User-defined Auxiliary Control Packets
2.2. Video Packets x
2.2.1. TDATA Pixel Packing 2.2.2. RGB Pixel Packing 2.2.3. YCbCr 444 Pixel Packing 2.2.4. YCbCr 422 Pixel Packing 2.2.5. YCbCr 420 Pixel Packing 2.2.6. Four-Channel Video Pixel Packing 2.2.7. Packing with Multiple Pixels in Parallel 2.2.8. Multiple Pixels in Parallel and Empty Pixels 2.2.9. YCbCr 422 Video with Multiple Pixels in Parallel 2.2.10. Packing RGB444 onto an RGB888 Interface 2.2.11. Packing with Less than 8 bits per Symbol Natively 2.2.12. Interlaced Fields
3. Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol Rules x
3.1. Rules for Packets 3.2. Rules for IPs
3.1. Rules for Packets x
3.1.1. Auxiliary Control Packet Rules
4. Intel FPGA Streaming Video Full-Raster Protocol x
4.1. Full-Raster Frame Structure 4.2. Full-Raster Start of Frame 4.3. Full-Raster TDATA Signal Layout 4.4. Full-Raster TREADY Signal 4.5. Full-Raster I/O Signals
4.4. Full-Raster TREADY Signal x
4.4.1. Full-Raster TREADY Handshake Process 4.4.2. Optional TREADY Signal: Receiver Interface 4.4.3. Optional TREADY Signal: Transmitter Interface 4.4.4. Optional Backpressure 4.4.5. Synchronous Pixel Clock Rates I/O Interfaces 4.4.6. Asynchronous Pixel Clock Rates I/O Interfaces
1. About the Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol
2. Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol Description
3. Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol Rules
4. Intel FPGA Streaming Video Full-Raster Protocol
5. Document Revision History for Intel FPGA Streaming Video Protocol Specification

AXI4-Stream Protocol Signals

The Intel FPGA streaming video protocol allows you to transfer a variety of video data following the AXI4-Stream protocol signals.
Table 1.  AXI4-Stream Protocol Signals
Signal Description
TDATA

Set TDATA width according to need. The minimum allowable width of TDATA on all IP interfaces is 8 bits. The width of TDATA is byte aligned (i.e. mutliple of 8). Systems that require smaller TDATA interfaces must pad their data. The TKEEP and TSTRB signals are unused, so every byte of TDATA is valid (no empty pixels). You deduce the exact length of a video packet from the image width. For other data, the components using the data must use the same convention for unused bytes.

TUSER[n:0]

Sized as 1 bit per byte of TDATA.

The LSB of TUSER is strobed high for the first pixel of the first of a frame (or interlaced field) of video.The other bits of TUSER are unused.
TLAST

The protocol transmits each line of video as an AXI4-S packet. TLAST strobes high to indicate the last beat of the packet. When transmitting only one pixel per clock TLAST is the last pixel of the line.

TREADY and TVALID Indicate the valid cycles on the bus.
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