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Introduction

This page gives overview of Zynq DisplayPort Subsystem which available as part of the Xilinx Vivado and SDK distribution.

The Subsystem is divided into 3 drivers - 1.
  1. dppsu - DisplayPort

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  1. Controller 

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  1. avbuf - Video Pipeline interface to PL and Memory

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  1. dpdma - DispayPort DMA for reading audio video from the memory

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How to enable

1. dppsu - https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/dppsu
2. avbuf - https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/avbuf
3. dpdma - https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/XilinxProcessorIPLib/drivers/dpdma

Driver source code is organized into different folders. Below diagram shows the driver source organization

avbuf/dppsu/dpdma
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-- Doc - Provides the API and data structure details
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- Examples - Reference application to show how to use the driver APIs and calling sequence
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- Source - Driver source files


Supported Features


The following features are supported:
  • DisplayPort v1.2a
  • 1 or 2 lanes main link.
  • 1.62G/2.7G/5.4G Line rates.
  • Source only controller.
  • Support Video resolution up to 4kx2k @ 30 Hz
  • APB interface for register access.
  • Direct 'live' video input from the PL in the form of native video.
  • Direct 'live' audio input from the PL in AXIS Format. (Only 2-channel audio support)
  • Support for 44.1kHz and 48kHz audio
  • Supports alpha blending of 2 video/graphics sources (one live and one nonlive, or 2 nonlive sources)
  • Support mixing of 2 audio sources. (16-bit audio from non-live source and 24-bit audio from live-source)
  • Supports alpha value embedded in graphics data or global alpha from a register
  • Provides a free running System Time Clock (STC) counter at 27MHz
  • Provides STC timestamps for A/V presentation units.
  • Provide STC timestamps for external events from the PL.
  • Supports video formats including Y-only, RGB, YCbCr, 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4:2:0(from buffers). On display, supports Y-only, RGB, YUV 444, and 422 (no 420 support)
  • Supports xvYCC display.
  • Supports AUX channel and Hot Plug Detect (HPD).
  • Supports live video/live graphics at 6, 8, 10 & 12 bits per color.
  • Supports Video formats including Y-only, RGB, YUV 444 and YUV 422 on live video and graphics
  • Supports 256-color palette translation for frame-buffer data. Palette data can be RGB or YUV. When YUV, it has to write in the order: Cr Y Cb
  • Support frame buffer formats, including 1,2,4,8,16,24, and 32 bits per pixel.
  • Provides test pattern generator as replacement to one of the 2 rendering sources on stream1.
  • Provides the blended video/audio to the PL via native video output or streaming AXI.
  • Provides chroma upsampling and colorspace conversion prior to alpha blending.
  • Provides colorspace conversion and chroma subsampling after alpha blending.
  • Supports background color.
  • Support full screen display. (No support for up/down-scaling)
  • Supports partial video overlay over graphics.
  • Supports interleaved frame buffer formats.
  • Supports planar Y and Cb and Cr frame buffers

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Known issues and limitations

The driver supports all the features except
1. Chroma Keying
2. Dithering

Test Procedure


Use case - Memory based data path (non-live)
The example in the DPDMA driver demonstrates the usage of the non-live(memory) data path. To enable this driver, dppsu should be selected under psu_dp and dpdma should be selected under psu_dpdma in the system.mss file.

Use case - PL to DP data path
To test this use case, psu_dp needs to be selected to dppsu and in the avbuf api will enable the access to the PL. Refer DPDMA example for the usage of the API.

Use case - PL to PL data path
To test this use case, psu_dp needs to be selected to avbuf.

Use case - Memory to PL data path
To test this use case, psu_dp needs to be selected to avbuf and the

Change Log

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2018.1

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  • avbuf - fixed RGB565 scaling factors
  • avbuf - PLL offset handling to fix the clock offset
  • dpdma - Fixed the compilation issue in the examples.