Xilinx FPGA GTX: The exact meaning of TXCHARDISPVAL
Displayport’s standard requires that the TPS2 and TPS3 training sequences have a known running disparity on the transmitted characters. It uses a plus-minus notation (e.g. K28.5-) to indicate the...
View ArticleDisplayport’s M and its Mvid fields: Timestamp or divider?
Introduction The Displayport standard requires the transmission of fields named Mvid in different places of the main link stream, however the relevant parts in the standard are somewhat unclear. This...
View ArticleImplementing a Displayport source on FPGA: Random jots
As I implemented a Displayport source (Single Stream Transport, SST) on a Virtex-7 from scratch (based upon GTH outputs), I wrote down some impressions. Here they are, in no particular order. As for...
View ArticleSample EDID info from a few monitors (video resolution parameters)
On Linux machines, there’s a command saying $ xrandr --verbose which outputs a lot of information about the display, in particular the EDID information obtained from the monitor. Among others, it’s a...
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