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Ixiasoft
30.3. Full-Raster to Streaming Converter Block Description
The full-raster stripper strips the full-raster timing information from the AXI4-S full-raster stream, leaving active-video data on the AXI4-S lite bus. The IP strips the timing information by setting the AXI4-S TVALID signal low during the blanking interval. When the input AXI4-S full-raster bus sets its TUSER signal high, the IP is in blanking. The stripper holds the TUSER high until the IP transmits the first active pixel.
The full-raster stripper has a pixel formatter logic, which is mainly based on a barrel shifter logic. It allows the IP to detect the correct position of the start of field for a pixel in parallel scenarios. It aligns the tdata packet content on the output video stream to ensure that the start of field always coincides with pixel 0.
The IP assumes that the transmitter side generates video data with a slower or faster pixel clock rate compared to the receiver video interface. Consequently, moving video data between two different clock domains requires clock domain crossings. Additionally, the TVALID and TREADY flow-controlled AXI4-S video interface may cause the following control-flow problems on the video datapath:
- Clock-skew matching, if video receiver and transmitter and video processing clocks do not match.
- In-rush of data if one of the modules in the video pipeline cannot offer the necessary throughput to move the data at the expected rate.
This IP includes an asynchronous output FIFO buffer that handles clock crossing domains between the full-raster and video processing clock domains. Additionally, it temporally accepts data to accommodate a small amount of data-skew mismatching or in-rush data when transferring data between full-raster and active-video only video interfaces.