Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC VCU TRD 2021.1 - 10G HDMI Video Capture and Display

This page provides all the information related to Design Module 4 - VCU TRD 10G HDMI Video Capture and Display design.

Table of Contents

1 Overview

The primary goal of this Design is to demonstrate the capabilities of VCU hard block present in Zynq UltraScale+ EV devices. The TRD will serve as a platform to tune the performance parameters of VCU and arrive at optimal configurations for encoder and decoder blocks with the streaming use case where bandwidth plays a vital role. 10G will give sufficient bandwidth for the streaming protocol to play video pipeline smoothly.

This design supports the following video interfaces:

Sources:

  • HDMI-Rx capture pipeline implemented in the PL

  • File source (SD card, USB storage, SATA hard disk)

  • Stream-In from network or internet

Sinks:

  • HDMI-Tx display pipeline implemented in the PL

VCU Codec:

  • Video Encode/Decode capability using VCU hard block in PL 

    • AVC/HEVC encoding

    • Encoder/decoder parameter configuration

Streaming Interfaces:

  • 10G Ethernet on PL 

  • 1G Ethernet on PS

Video format:

  • NV12

10G Deliverables:

Pipeline

Input Source

Output Type

Resolution

Video Codec Type

Deliverables

Record / Stream-Out pipeline

HDMI-Rx

File Sink / Stream-Out

4K /1080p

HEVC / AVC

HDMI-Rx Video encodes with VCU and stores it in a container format

Playback pipeline

File Source / Stream-In

HDMI-Tx

4K /1080p

HEVC / AVC

Playback of the local-file / stream-in with video decoded using VCU and display on  HDMI-Tx

Capture → Display

HDMI-Rx

HDMI-Tx

4K /1080p

HEVC / AVC

HDMI-Rx Video passes to HDMI-Tx without VCU

Capture → Encode → Decode → Display

HDMI-Rx

HDMI-Tx

4K /1080p

HEVC / AVC

HDMI-Rx raw video passes through  VCU elements encoder and decoder and finally displays on HDMI-Tx

Supported Resolution:

The table below provides the supported resolution in this design.

Resolution

Command Line

Single Stream

Multi-stream

4Kp60

NA

4Kp30

NA

1080p60

NA

√ - Supported
NA – Not applicable

The below sections describe the 10G HDMI Video Capture and HDMI Display design. It is VCU TRD design supporting 10G HDMI-Rx and HDMI-Tx. For the overview, software tools, system requirements and design files follow the link below:

The below figure shows the 10G HDMI Video Capture and HDMI Display design hardware block diagram.


The below figure shows the 10G HDMI Video Capture and HDMI Display design software block diagram.

1.1 Board Setup

Refer below link for Board Setup

       Board Connections: 

The figure shows the ZCU106 board connections for 10G HDMI-Rx and HDMI-Tx Streaming support

1.2 Run Flow

The TRD package is released with the source code, Vivado project, Petalinux BSP, and SD card image that enables the user to run the demonstration. It also includes the binaries necessary to configure and boot the ZCU106 board. Prior to running the steps mentioned in this wiki page, download the TRD package and extract its contents to a directory referred to as TRD_HOME which is the home directory.

Refer below link to download all TRD contents.

TRD package contents are placed in the following directory structure. The user needs to copy all the files from the $TRD_HOME/images/vcu_10g/ to FAT32 formatted SD card directory.

rdf0428-zcu106-vcu-trd-2021-1/ ├── apu │ └── vcu_petalinux_bsp ├── images │ ├── vcu_10g │ ├── vcu_audio │ ├── vcu_llp2_hdmi_nv12 │ ├── vcu_llp2_hdmi_nv16 │ ├── vcu_llp2_hdmi_xv20 │ ├── vcu_llp2_sdi_xv20 │ ├── vcu_multistream_nv12 │ ├── vcu_pcie │ ├── vcu_plddrv1_hdr10_hdmi │ ├── vcu_plddrv2_hdr10_hdmi │ └── vcu_sdi_xv20 ├── pcie_host_package │ ├── COPYING │ ├── include │ ├── LICENSE │ ├── readme.txt │ ├── RELEASE │ ├── tests │ ├── tools │ └── xdma ├── pl │ ├── constrs │ ├── designs │ ├── prebuild │ ├── README.md │ └── srcs