GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP Quick Reference 2. HDMI Overview 3. Release Information 4. GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP Getting Started 5. GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP Hardware Design Examples 6. HDMI Source 7. HDMI Sink 8. Transceiver Handling (HDMI Wrapper = HDMI and Transceiver) 9. HDMI Parameters 10. HDMI Simulation Example 11. GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives 12. Document Revision History for the GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
1. GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP Quick Reference x
1.1. Terms and Acronyms
3. Release Information x
3.1. Device Family Support 3.2. Feature Support 3.3. Resource Utilization
4. GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP Getting Started x
4.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores 4.2. Specifying IP Parameters and Options
4.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
4.1.1. Intel® FPGA IP Evaluation Mode
6. HDMI Source x
6.1. Source Functional Description 6.2. Source Interfaces 6.3. Source Clock Tree 6.4. Valid Video Data 6.5. Source Deep Color Implementation
6.1. Source Functional Description x
6.1.1. Source Scrambler, TMDS/TERC4 Encoder 6.1.2. Source Video Resampler 6.1.3. Source Window of Opportunity Generator 6.1.4. Source Auxiliary Packet Encoder 6.1.5. Source Auxiliary Packet Generators 6.1.6. Source Auxiliary Data Path Multiplexers 6.1.7. Source Auxiliary Control Port 6.1.8. Source Audio Encoder 6.1.9. TX Core-PHY Interface 6.1.10. I2C Controller
6.1.7. Source Auxiliary Control Port x
6.1.7.1. Source General Control Packet (GCP) 6.1.7.2. Source Auxiliary Video Information (AVI) InfoFrame Bit-Fields 6.1.7.3. Source HDMI Vendor Specific InfoFrame (VSI)
6.1.8. Source Audio Encoder x
6.1.8.1. Audio InfoFrame (AI) Bundle Bit-Fields 6.1.8.2. Audio Metadata Bundle Bit-Fields
6.1.9. TX Core-PHY Interface x
6.1.9.1. TX Oversampler 6.1.9.2. Clock Enable Generator
7. HDMI Sink x
7.1. Sink Functional Description 7.2. Sink Interfaces 7.3. Sink Clock Tree 7.4. Sink Deep Color Implementation
7.1. Sink Functional Description x
7.1.1. Sink Word Alignment and Channel Deskew 7.1.2. Sink Descrambler, TMDS/TERC4 Decoder 7.1.3. Sink Auxiliary Decoder 7.1.4. Sink Auxiliary Packet Capture 7.1.5. Sink Video Resampler 7.1.6. Sink Auxiliary Data Port 7.1.7. Sink Audio Decoder 7.1.8. Status and Control Data Channel (SCDC) Interface 7.1.9. RX Core-PHY Interface 7.1.10. I2C Target 7.1.11. I2C and EDID RAM Blocks
7.1.6. Sink Auxiliary Data Port x
7.1.6.1. Sink General Control Packet (GCP) 7.1.6.2. Sink Auxiliary Video Information (AVI) InfoFrame Bit-Fields 7.1.6.3. Sink HDMI Vendor Specific InfoFrame (VSI)
7.1.7. Sink Audio Decoder x
7.1.7.1. Audio InfoFrame (AI) Bundle Bit-Fields 7.1.7.2. Audio Metadata Bundle Bit-Fields
7.1.9. RX Core-PHY Interface x
7.1.9.1. RX Oversampler
8. Transceiver Handling (HDMI Wrapper = HDMI and Transceiver) x
8.1. HDMI RX with Integrated Transceiver 8.2. HDMI TX with Integrated Transceiver 8.3. Creating Dual Simplex Groups
9. HDMI Parameters x
9.1. HDMI Source Parameters 9.2. HDMI Sink Parameters
1. GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP Quick Reference
2. HDMI Overview
3. Release Information
4. GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP Getting Started
5. GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP Hardware Design Examples
6. HDMI Source
7. HDMI Sink
8. Transceiver Handling (HDMI Wrapper = HDMI and Transceiver)
9. HDMI Parameters
10. HDMI Simulation Example
11. GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives
12. Document Revision History for the GTS HDMI Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

6.4. Valid Video Data

You can generate video data using a different clock, other than vid_clk used in the HDMI TX core.

To generate video data, you need to use the actual pixel clock but vid_clk runs at a faster frequency. You can use a FIFO buffer to clock the data between the actual pixel clock and vid_clk while generating the valid video data (vid_valid) based on the inverted empty FIFO buffer.

For example, when operating at 6 Gbps link rate while transmitting 3840 x 2160p60 RGB resolution, a test pattern generator configured at 2 pixels in parallel runs at 297 MHz with the vid_clk domain of the HDMI TX core operating at 300 MHz. Like this case, not every vid_clk has valid video data. You can handle similar cases using the inverted empty signal of the DCFIFO.

When vid_clk runs at a faster frequency than the actual pixel clock frequency/pixels per clock, toggle vid_valid to qualify the video data.

Figure 24. Video Clock Running at Faster Frequency

When you connect the test pattern generator to the HDMI TX core which runs at a faster clock rate, you need to generate the vid_valid to qualify validity of the pixel data. There is a requirement for the vid_valid generation to ensure the video data evenly distributed across the link bandwidth. An example for the vid_valid generation is as below:

First, you need to calculate the ratio of the pixel rate to the vid_clk frequency. For example, 4kp60 video at 2 pixels per clock which runs at vid_clk of 300 Mhz, the ratio is

Then, you need to create a logic to generate the vid_valid according to the calculated ratio. For the example above, the vid_valid should be evenly asserted for 99 clock cycles for every 100 clock cycles.

Figure 25. Timing diagram for the vid_valid generation

When vid_clk runs at the actual pixel clock frequency/pixels per clock, vid_valid should always remain asserted.

Figure 26. Video Clock Running at Actual Frequency
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