HDMI Synthesizable Transactor provides a smart way to verify the HDMI Specification version 1.4b, 2.0b and 2.1 component of a SOC or a ASIC in Emulator or FPGA platform. The SmartDV's HDMI Synthesizable Transactor is fully compliant with standard HDMI Specification version 1.4b, 2.0b and 2.1 and provides the following features.
HDMI 1.4/2.0/2.1 Synthesizable Transactor
Overview
Key Features
- Protocol Checker fully compliant with HDMI Specification 1.4b,2.0b and 2.1 compliant.
- Full HDMI source and sink device functionality
- Supports Video data coding.
- Supports TERC4 coding and Control period codings.
- Supports three operating modes given below,
- Video period
- Data Island period
- Control period
- Supports Display Data Channel(DDC)
- Supports Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and Fast Vactive (FVA)
- Compressed Video Transport VESA DSC 1.2a
- Supports Fixed Rate Link (FRL) transmission with below features,
- FRL Character Error Detection
- FRL Content Protection
- Forward Error Correction (FEC)
- 16b18b coding
- Supports 3D, 4Kx2K, 5Kx2K, 8Kx4K, 10Kx4K Resolution and Expanded Color Spaces.
- Supports Audio Return Channel (ARC).
- Supports Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC).
- Supports all packet formats in HDMI Specification 1.4b and 2.0 and 2.1 compliant
- Supports data island error correction (ECC).
- Supports on the fly generation of data.
- Supports 340 Mcsc to 600 Mcsc TMDS Character Rate.
- Supports FRL Lane link rates of 3 Gbps, 6 Gbps, 8 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and 12 Gbps.
- Supports High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection System version1.4 (HDCP v1.4)
- Supports High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection System version2.2 (HDCP v2.2)
- Supports for HDCP2.2 with full authentication.
- Supports for HDCP2.2 with bypass the authentication.
- Supports High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection System version2.3 (HDCP v2.3)
- Supports Consumer Electronics Control (CEC2.0)
- Supports HDMI Ethernet and Audio Return Channel (HEAC)
- Supports CEA-861-F/CTA-861-G standards
- Detects and reports the following errors.
- Invalid control character
- Invalid data character
- Invalid 10bit code
- Sync errors
- ECC errors
- Invalid packing injection and detection
- Supports HDMI Type B Connector Dual-Link Architecture
- Compatible with DVI 1.0(Digital visual interface) single-link and dual-link architecture.
- Supports ID Communications Channel (IDCC) protocol that works over DDC and enables communication between a Source and a Cable in HDMI 2.1
- Supports Sink Capabilities Data Structure (SCDS) feature and EDID Extensible Override DB (EEODB) feature in HDMI 2.1
- Supports Power for Cable Assemblies (PCA) feature in HDMI 2.1
- HDMI SimXL comes with complete testsuite to test every feature of HDMI specification.
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
Block Diagram
Deliverables
- Synthesizable transactors
- Complete regression suite containing all the HDMI 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