SMPTE Serial Data Interface (SDI) Synthesizable Transactor

Overview

Key Features

• Supports SMPTE ST 425-1:2011 (Source Image Format and Ancillary Data Mapping for the 3 Gb/s Serial Interface)
• Supports SMPTE ST 292-1:2011 (1.5 Gb/s Signal/Data Serial Interface)
• Supports SMPTE ST 372:2011 (Dual Link 1.5 Gb/s Digital Interface for 1920 × 1080 and 2048 × 1080 Picture Formats)
• Supports SMPTE 296M-2001 (1280x720 Progressive Image Sample Structure Analog and Digital Representation and Analog Interface)
• Supports SMPTE 274M-2008 (1920 x 1080 Image Sample Structure, Digital Representation and Digital Timing Reference Sequences for Multiple Picture Rates)
• Supports SMPTE 428-9-2008 (D-Cinema Distribution Master - Image Pixel Structure Level 3 - Serial Digital Interface Signal Formatting)
• Supports SMPTE ST 2048-2:2011 (2048x1080 Digital Cinematography Production Image FS/709 Formatting for Serial Digital Interface)
• Supports SMPTE ST 291:2010 (Ancillary Data Packet and Space Formatting)
• Supports Dual standard support for 270-Mbps and 1.5-Gbps SDI
• Supports full SMPTE SDI Tx and Rx device functionality
• Supports Serialization and de-serialization
• Supports NRZI encoding
• Protocol supports below video format mapping structures
• 4:2:2 (Y’C’BC’R)/10-bit
• 4:4:4 (R’G’B’)/10-bit
• 4:4:4:4 (R’G’B’ +A)/10-bit
• 4:4:4 (Y’C’BC’R)/10-bit
• 4:4:4:4 (Y’C’BC’R+A)/10-bit
• 4:4:4 (R’G’B’)/10-bit
• 4:4:4:4 (R’G’B’ +A)/10-bit
• 4:4:4 (Y’C’BC’R)/10-bit
• 4:4:4:4 (Y’C’BC’R+A)/10-bit
• 4:4:4 (R’G’B’)/12-bit
• 4:4:4 (Y’C’BC’R)/12-bit
• 4:4:4 (X’Y’Z’)/12-bit
• 4:2:2 (Y’C’BC’R)/12-bit
• Supports Dual-link channel interface
• Supports 24-bit Digital Audio data
• Supports 4 to 32 Audio channels
• Supports SMPTE ST 299-1:2009 (24-Bit Digital Audio Format for SMPTE 292 Bit-Serial Interface)
• Supports SMPTE ST 299-2:2010 (Extension of the 24-Bit Digital Audio Format to 32 Channels for 3 Gb/s Bit-Serial Interfaces)
• Supports Audio extended data packets
• Supports scrambler which can be enabled or disabled
• Supports insertion of scrambler errors
• Supports error correction code (ECC)
• Supports detections and reporting the following errors
• Invalid EAV code
• Invalid SAV code
• Invalid CRC error
• Invalid LN error
• Invalid parity error
• Invalid NRZI encoding error
• Invalid 10bit code
• ECC errors
• Invalid ADF errors

Benefits

• Compatible with testbench writing using SmartDV's VIP
• All UVM sequences/testcases written with VIP can be reused
• Runs in every major emulators environment
• Runs in custom FPGA platforms

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Deliverables

• Synthesizable transactors
• Complete regression suite containing all the SMPTE SDI testcases
• Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of Synthesizable Transactor
• Detailed documentation of all DPI, class, task and functions used in verification env
• Documentation also contains User's Guide and Release notes

Technical Specifications