Intel® FPGA Streaming Video Protocol Specification

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Date 4/15/2024
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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

2.2.3. YCbCr 444 Pixel Packing

The Intel FPGA streaming video protocol specifies a packing scheme for YCbCr 444 pixels.
Figure 21. 1 pixel in parallel, 24 bit YcbCr444 video packet

The figure shows the same video packet but with YCbCr24 444 pixels.

YCbCr pixels are always packed with Cb as the least significant symbol, then the Y symbol and then the Cr symbol.

Cr is the red-chroma information of a YUV stream, which aligns to the red channel information for RGB video. With this ordering, if a YUV image displays accidentally on an RGB monitor, the colors appear almost correctly.

The luma component aligns with the RGB green, as it is the main luma contributor for some algorithms.

Often in math algorithms green is the primary luma contributor when determining brightness of an RGB stream, so keeping these buses aligned is critical.

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