Gravity HL2V User`s Manual
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1. 2 Data Source 1s the destination where the image pattern will be loaded Select either Ping or Pong memory buffer 3 The Load Data Button must be clicked to load the selected image into the card memory This can only be done when the transmitter 1s off GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 36 of 40 RevG 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 2 1 5 Control Parameters Area mit On Hotlink Port f Lower f Upper H Frames fi o E Enable Scroll Auto Li 1 HotLink Port This selects whether the Upper or Lower physical port is receiving the data This should be set to lower for BNC connectors and Upper for SMA and FCN connectors on the PCI card The PMC card will also use a setting of upper 2 Number of Frames This is an advanced feature but allows multiple frames of data to be loaded into the frame buffers This count is typically 1 3 PLL 2X Controls the Hotlink SPDSEL pin for the PLL Disabled lt 400Mbits sec and Enabled gt 800Mbits sec Note For data rates 400 800 Mbits sec the card must be hardware configured This is typically unchecked 4 Enable Scroll allows a simulated motion on the transmitted frame When this 1s selected a horizontal scrolling line will appear on the transmitted image 5 Auto Ping Pong buffer swap allows the Transmitter to swap from Ping frame to Pong frame alter2. par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 4 EOL End Of Line Specifies the End of Line Character for Transmit mode Unused for Receive mode Options for the above are K28 0 K28 1 K28 2 K28 3 K28 4 K28 6 K28 7 K23 7 K27 7 K29 7 K30 7 or OFF 5 EOL Nuls Specifies the number of end of line Nuls K28 5 6 FFFFH or 6 65 535 Unused for Receive mode 6 EOF Nuls Specifies the number of end of frame Nuls K28 5 6 FFFFFFH or 6 16 777 215 Used for Transmit operation or for receiver this is the number of continuous K28 5 Idles required in a row to trigger an internal End of Frame EOF Not supported in all F W loads Pixels Line Columns and Lines Rows are determined by the size of the test pattern to be displayed GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 34 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 2 1 3 Image Options Area Image Options a Shift Bute Swaps ml More Header Size bytes p _ 1 Bytes Pixel This number is the number of bytes per pixel This is based on the image information and for most cameras it is 2 bytes per pixel Even if the camera is a 14 bit per pixel type camera this value will be 2 because the image actually uses 2 bytes to send the 14 bits of image data with the other 2 bits rese
3. 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 12 3 SMA Connectors The SMA connector is a standard SMA type with a floating outer shield to allow for the diff pair hookup The outer shield is the Hotlink and the inner pin 1s the Hotlink Center 18 Outside 18 Transformer Diff Signal SMA Cable Insulation Washer Because this 18 a Differential Signal verify that this connector doesn t make contact with the chassis at either end It must remain isolated Circuit Circuit Board Board Mounting Bracket GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 18 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 Using Supplied Factory Test Applications 3 1 HL2V RcvR Test Application for Receiver Card The receiver application is a test application that shows received video data captured real time from a video source This application is helpful in testing the receiver parameters and debugging the interface This application also creates C C code that can be used with the example source code provided to allow a fully working custom application framework to be created Starting the Receiver Application Go to the start Menu and find the EFCAPT program group Click on the HL2V Rcvr TestApp item as shown below HAL Revr Test pp fm EFCAPI mit T estin DU The driver number used for the card will be
4. automatically enumerated from any existing HL2V Receiver or Transmitter Test Applications running Basically this means if you have a card installed in the PC and you run this program it will auto start as Driver number 0 Another example is you have 2 cards in a PC and you run this program the first time it will start Driver 0 then the next time it will start Driver 1 automatically A way to force the driver number is via a command line parameter If you make a shortcut to this program and assign a command line parameter for your desired card number this will be the driver number that 1s started every time An example of creating a shortcut icon on your desktop and assigning it a fixed driver number this is shown below GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 19 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc Hs rcwr paran PARAM Pi adie 10 31 2005 1 2730 PM Ga 904 ntes Atttributes normal Create a shortcut Drag this shortcut onto the desktop Rename the shortcut and assign a driver number to it as a command line parameter M TRP P E ee Te ek imc Rim pa FN is m R y 1 2 CT J ee E E G L r aaron palates Now this icon can be clicked and the program will start and open driver number 1 everytime GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 20 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distrib
5. will affect to operation of the HL2V card PLD registers can be viewed and changed also by clicking on the PLD button HL _Xmit Test Program Y1 8 Driver 1 Gravity 64 bil Transmit Frame Description Start mit Hotlink Port API Ver fe 5er 4 31 f Upper PLD Ver Frames li o fiera PLL 2X Enable Scroll T Auto Click this button to show PLD registers GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL EOL NULS 00000214 00000002 OFFF 7310 00000000 02000500 00010040 030D4000 16742110 00000000 PLD register Image Options Butez Pix Vertical Bars viewport rn ie 3 e C Horizontal Bars P shit Bitmap Data Source Byte Swaps PING C PONG Header Size bytes Gao U Page 39 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 2 4 Transmitter Parameter File The HL2V Transmitter application will save a parameter file when closed This file is named HL2V XMIT PARAM This file can be used to copy and paste values into your own C C programs or the example code supplied The file contents are shown below from a typical usage Great River Technology Hotlink II Video parameter file Xmit structure members can be pasted into example code IMAGED Cols 640 IMAGED Rows 512 VIDINFO BytesPerLine 1280 VIDINFO LinesPerFrame 512 IMAGED RxOptic Copper HL UPPER VIDINEOs VIDINFO VIDINE Os VED
6. 00 for instance 6 SOF Start of Frame Trigger Value This defines the Trigger for the frame This must match the setting in the Transmitter Application 7 Status indicators show the running status of the receiver and if frames are detected 8 Start Stop button control the receiver flow GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 23 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 1 2 Start Receiving Data Click on the Start Rcv button API Ver PLO Ver Control mm ccm Hotlink Port Le Int Count nn F PING Ld SOF Trigger Value FPS MA a Interrupts E28 Threshold Size 0 255 Idle Trigger Count E lan Be 1 lepas bytes goo E5536 bytes 5000 The Start Rev button will change to Stop The green box with Revr On next to it will appear to show the receiver 1s running e Contral Acwr On m Hotlink Port I 9 Upper SOF Trigger Value L Lo WET F N Im 1 NH A Multirame jg PLL Threshold Size 0 255 ldle Trigger Count M E38 bytes oc There will be a yellow RX LIVE box appear 1f images are being detected and captured If this Yellow indicator does not show then the image trigger such as Start of Frame SOF is not being detected or the transmitter 1s not correctly hooked up to the card GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 24 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est d
7. 008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc Figure 1 Hardware Block Diagram iii 5 Change Log Revision Date 12 21 2005 Gravity64 Updates and Initial Release Rev D 12 12 2006 Included Physical information for PCI Included connector information 3 20 2007 Added PCIe updates 1 17 2008 Included Physical and connector information for PMC GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 3 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 1 Overview of Gravity HL2V Hotlink Il Video 1 1 Product Description The Gravity HL2V products are intended to support implementations of Cypress HOTLink Il Video HL2V for transporting digital video Cypress HOTLink Il uses the same physical and encoding layers as Fibre Channel over copper and provides a reliable high bandwidth video link for video networks and point to point video connections The cards can be ordered for any link speed between 160Mbps and 1 5Gbps The cards have two 16 MByte ping and pong image stores such that PCI can access image memory during live transmit and receive The cards have dedicated SXGA video ports so that incoming video can be viewed live without loading the PCI Bus This is an extended option and is not available on all cards Features
8. 2000100 O1FFFF14 00010032 O1FFFF18 0003E801 Show Counters Check this check box to show received frame byte counts and last 4 LWORDS of image data 00140000 1310720 E This value is the byte O0013FFFO OO13FFF4 IO013FFFB8 0013FFFC OOAA ADB 00AA24DB 004124DB OOAA ADB le Show Counters GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL count for the last received frame This number should be stable These values are the last 4 LWORDS of data of the last received frame Page 28 of 40 RevG 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 1 4 Receiver Parameter File The HL2V Receiver application will save a parameter file when closed This file is named HL2V RCVR PARAM Once you get the image of your camera working well in the HL2V Receiver test application these parameters will be shown with the values you selected via the GUI This file can be used to copy and paste values into your own C C programs or the example code supplied The example code has a section labeled USER DEFINED AREA The file contents are shown below from a typical usage Great River Technology Hotlink IT Video parameter file Critical Revr structure members can be pasted into example code at USER DEFINED AREA IMAGED Cols 640 IMAGED Rows 512 IMAGED RxOptic_Copper HL_UPPER VIDINFO SOFChar K28 0 VIDINFO FrameNuls 1000 VIDINFO P
9. 2K is ok B For storage to disk real time a RAID 0 is best for speed but does not offer redundancy if redundancy is required look to RAID 5 GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 11 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Great River Technology Inc 2 10 Critical System Information uN Org L iaie Herce Compas H arret H nhao B td y dem MicsosoltWmdorr P Fini rz aora Yeman MAMI Senece Pack Z Peeters b a T Pee a FALSE Computer Inte Peni mif D CPU 3 40CHr 240 GHz 3 25 GE of RM Page 12 of 40 The EFCAPI device driver cannot be used on Windows systems with more than 3G bytes of memory This limitation also requires that PAE Physical Address Extension not be A system can be checked by showing Properties of My Computer The box should look similar to the following Note memory is 3G bytes or less and there is no PAE Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 11 HL2V Receive Operation The Gravity HL2V hardware captures all non special character data into a receive buffer memory The buffer is divided into 2 parts Ping and Pong The received frames are alternately stored in these buffers The data stored into these buffers includes header data and image data if applicable
10. Frames are delineated by either a designated special character or a set number of K28 5 nul characters An example Hotlink video frame is shown below This frame has special characters for Start of Frame Start of Line End of Line and End of Frame There is header data and image data This frame would typically be captured by triggering on the Start of Frame character SOF and then the header and image data would be stored to the memory buffers and interrupts fired after the capture of each frame HOTLink Video Frame Options EOL Characters EOL SOF Frame Header Idles 7 dies Character y A for Vertical Sync Active Frame aoe mage Timing Active Image Area Area Video Height Frame SOL Height Characters ii for Horizonrtal Sync Line Timing T y EOF Idles T Active Image Area Width di EOF Character Video Frame Width The receive flow is shown below Card Ping Buffer Hotlink Frame 1 k Card Pong Buffer PC Ping Interrupt Hotlink Frame 2 PC Pong Interrupt HEN Card Ping Buffer Hotlink Frame 3 PC Ping Interrupt Card Pong Buffer Hotlink Frame 4 PC Pong Interrupt The Gravity64 HL2V card is very flexible and the frame triggering options can be programmed to receive nearly any type of video frame GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 13 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Gre
11. Great River Technology Inc Great River Technology 6121 Indian School Rd NE Ste 141 Albuquerque NM 87110 www greatrivertech com A vh Gravity HL2V User s Manual Hotlink Il Video User Guide for Gravity 64bit PCI PMC cards and Gravity PCle Rev G October 30 2008 GRAAVbA HLZV FMC Contact Information Telephone 1 866 478 4491 Company Fax 505 883 1375 grt greatrivertech com Web Address www greatrivertech com Contact www techway fr TECHWAY S A S 19 Avenue de Norvege B t Oslo Villebon sur Yvette 91953 Courtaboeuf Cedex France T 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 F 33 0 1 64 53 17 74 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc TABLE OF CONTENTS I1 Overview of Gravity HL2V Hotlink II Video nn esses eese eee eene een nn 4 1 1 Product Descriptio i aee ea EP o Er IEEE DIE RORIS DEI 4 2 Gravity HL2V Hardware Operation cccccccsssssssssssssssssccssssssssssssesessssssssssssssssssssseees 5 2 1 Block TTT RIDERE EI i 5 2 2 EPCI Gard Physicalidimensionsi la 6 2 3 PCI Card LED Indicators aan 7 2 4 PMC Card Physical dimensions 8 S A o lac 8 22s S E 0108 EEE T a uo ROA 8 2 5 PMC Card LED Indicators 0000 nuisances 9 2 6 Basic Memory Map caidas 10 2 7 POU NT Se DT 11 2 8 SAGA Monitor IBter T ro i e bi eor i mid diei 11 2 9 Recommended minimum system ccce ee e eee eee eee es
12. INEO VIDINFO VIDINEOs VIDINEO VIDENEO VIDINEOG VIDINEO V IDINEOs VIDINFO SOFChar K28 0 SOLChar NOTUSED EOFChar NOTUSED EOLChar NOTUSED FrameNuls 200000 LineNuls 64 PLL2X 0 ThreshSelect 0 FrameCount 1 Threshold 0 HeaderBytes 0 ByteSwaps 0 Typical globals if used gBytesPix 2 This global is not used in exampleHL2V code L GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr END OF DOCUMENT Page 40 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 433 0 1 64 53 37 90
13. LL2X 0 Remaining structure Memebers VIDINFO ThreshSelect 0 VIDINFO FrameCount 1 VIDINFO Threshold 1 VIDINFO HeaderBytes 0 VIDINFO ByteSwaps 0 Typical globals if used gBytesPix 4 This global is not used in exampleHL2V code gShiftVal 6 GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 29 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 2 HL2V Xmit Test Application for Transmitter Card Camera Emulator The Transmitter application is a test application that allows the transmitter card to send Hotlink II video images This application 1s helpful in testing the receiver as a stimulus or Camera Emulator This application also creates C C code that can be used with the example source code provided to allow a fully working custom application framework to be created Starting the Transmitter Application Go to the start Menu and find the EFCAPI program group Click on the HL2V Xmit TestApp item as shown below mpe ac kauf HLA 4 B uv Amit Test pp lim EFCAPI The driver number used for the card will be automatically enumerated from any existing HL2V Receiver or Transmitter Test Applications running Basically this means if you have a card installed in the PC and you run this program it will auto start as Driver number 0 Another example is you have 2 cards in a PC and you run this progr
14. VER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 2 PCI Card Physical dimensions The card conforms to the PCI Short form factor Both the GRAVITY 64 and the GRAVITY PCle products are this size Dimensions are 4 191 x 6 855 E E K mau Pub 2 TL eee ae a RUE Ld bd Ll EH n n LJ k y alm a KERER aa pium LR uin GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 6 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 3 PCI Card LED Indicators FPGA Config HL2V TX On done valid HL2V RX On Voltage Regulators Frame Power Valid LED s Detect 2 5 RocketlO 5V Ji NETT r DN hir era A 10 lroesoes O m S INN CENE CRAVE4 PCI FAY FOSSO 2175 asw T 1 5V Core si 3 3V GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 7 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 4 PMC Card Physical dimensions The card conforms to the Standard single PMC form factor as defined in IEEE Std 1386 2001 The connector locations are shown below for the 2 different configurations The figures below are shown as what is called component side in the PMC spec 2 4 1 SMA connectors E nom EEE ETT ONE Sins 25mm 12
15. am the first time it will start Driver 0 then the next time it will start Driver 1 automatically A way to force the driver number is via a command line parameter If you make a shortcut to this program and assign a command line parameter for your desired card number this will be the driver number that 1s started every time To do this basically just create a shortcut to this program and enter a command line parameter as your desired driver number For a detailed example on how to create an shortcut icon with a command line parameter see the section of this document titled HL2V RcvR Test Application for Receiver Card GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 30 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc Once the program is started successfully the main window will come up as shown below Transmit Frame Description Area for setting image parameters HL2 _Xmit Test Program Y1 8 Driver 1 Gravity 64 bit Transmit Frame Description Control Image Options 1 zit OF Bytes Fix 1E ci R Shift Byte Swaps Header Size bytes Hotlink Port fe Lower e pper H Frames f fo PUL Z Enable Scroll Auto Information Control Area for Area setting the image data to be loaded to the card GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL b d j Data Pattern Vertical Bars Horizontal Bars Bitmap Data Sourc
16. ant inputs The GravityPCle card uses a 1 Lane interface Maximum transfer rates of 160Mbytes sec sustained have been measured For typical operation estimate an average of 100Mbytes sec 2 8 SXGA Monitor interface SXGA Monitor interface is available as a firmware upgrade option for your specific HOTLink frame size and format Not available on the standard card The Gravity HL2V card cards have standard VGA 15 pin connectors The connector has a fused 5V output set for 500 mA The SXGA interface has sufficient drive strength for standard computer monitors with RGB 75 Ohm terminations The video output is always SXGA and smaller image formats are top right justified on the monitor Monochrome images are mapped on to green of the RGB monitor otandard computer monitors require precise frame timing When the SXGA output is turned on the Gravity HL2V card is tolerant of incoming video frame rates that are a multiple of 16 67 ms 0 1 2 9 Recommended minimum system There are too many factors to state what type of system to use the Hotlink Video card in but below shows a typical system that allows the user to obtain good performance for video capture Motherboard 64 bit PCI slots for each card or PCIe slots if using the Gravity PCIe B Memory min of 512Meg RAM 1 Gig is better High performance graphics card with low latency B Processor should be fast enough such as 2 4 G or greater Intel Pentium Operating System Windows XP or
17. at River Technology Inc The Hardware configuration for Receive is shown below The card can receive Hotlink Video on various different types of connectors The SMA or FCN type use the top ports HL UPPER and the BNC type uses the bottom port HL LOWER for PCI cards The PMC card always uses the Top port HL UPPER for either a FCN or SMA type connector When the PMC card is used as a conduction cooled mount and the Hotlink RX is brought through the backplane the programming for the correct port is still HL UPPER Consult the factory about Fibre optic interface which is also available Only one of the ports can be received at a time and the card is delivered with only the connector designated in the order The port selection made via software control Gravity64 HL2V card Port HL UPPER Received Hotlink Video if using FCN or SMA type connector Port HL LOWER Received Hotlink Video if using BNC type connector 2 11 1 Receive Operation with pass through RX to TX Wrap The Gravity HL2V hardware can also operate in a pass through or wrap mode were all of the incoming Hotlink Video from the top receive port will be sent back out of the top transmit port This data will be retransmitted as near real time and will be unaltered This mode works well for daisy chaining cards or using the HL2V card as a line spy The cards receive operation is still operational in this mode and incoming Hotlink Il Video can still be captured as shown abo
18. e e PING C PONG Load Data Image Options Area for setting the image data to be loaded to the card Page 31 of 40 Data Pattern Area for setting the image data to be loaded to the card Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 2 1 Transmitter Application Parameter Setup 3 2 1 1 Information Area PLD version and the API version It should match the same versions that were ordered or specified This 1s useful information which can also be used to verify any firmware or software upgrades Always have these values available when contacting Technical Support API Ver FES z PLO Ver 1574 E PLO Regs GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 32 of 40 RevG 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 2 1 2 Transmit Frame Description Area 1 SOF Start Of Frame E Specifies the Start of Frame Character for Transmit mode For Receive mode this defines the Trigger for the frame and must be set 2 SOL Start Of Line Specifies the Start of Line Character for Transmit mode Unused for Receive mode 3 EOF End Of Frame Specifies the End of Frame Character for Transmit mode Unused for Receive mode GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 33 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu
19. e 64 Bit 66 MHz PCI ver 2 2 Compliant or 1 lane PCI Express PCI e e PCI Interface will work in either 5V or 3 3V backplanes e Hotlink Interface BNC SMA or FCN copper or Fibre 160Mbps to 1 5Gbps e 32 Megabytes SDRAM e Win98SE XP NT4 2k Drivers and support for Linux and VxWorks Environmental e Operating Temperature O to 70C PCI 40 to 85 PMC e Relative Humidity 5 to 95 non condensing e Power 2 5A O 5V e Isolation 500V at Fibre Interface For more information on Hotlink Il Video operation Refer to the Great River Technology document titled White Paper Best Practices for Implementing a HOTLink Video Protocol for IR and Optical Applications GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 4 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 Gravity HL2V Hardware Operation 2 1 Block Diagram RAM 2Mx32 BIT 2Mx32 BIT PING IMAGE PONG IMAGE CONTROL Male e PLD PCI DATA 32 BIT SERIO E DATA FORMATTING sme y DES PLD io FCAV PCI FCAV PMC m i e SS mm m m m m m SS m m RECEIVER FCAV PCI DVI FCAV PMC DI VERSIONS ONLY VERSIONS OHLY i CONFIGURATION FLASH e e e e dise CONH TWIN AX CONN OPTICAL FC TRANSCEIVER Figure 1 Hardware Block Diagram GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 5 of 40 RevG 10 30 2008 GREAT RI
20. ee eese ee eee eee se sess s eee ee eoe 11 2 10 Critical System Information eee eeeie e pao e aeo erre ee beoe e ena eaae aa aa ve aeo er ree e eb eene rena aerae 12 2AL HE2N Receive Operator 13 2 11 1 Receive Operation with pass through RX to TX Wrap ll 14 2 112 Transm Opera On ai Mt dde dti as 15 2 12 Card Connectoroplons RR 16 2 12 1 FEN CoNneeorsa seen 17 P BNC One CO TTT 17 2 12 3 SMA Conectada 18 3 Using Supplied Factory Test Applications ee ee eee ee eese eenn 19 3 1 HL2V RcvR Test Application for Receiver Card eee eee eeee 19 IEL Receiver Application Parameter Setup arra aio d rud 22 SL li Image Control Paramete Aiea anc a a nian ieee 22 a I 1 2 Control Parameters Attacca 23 SZ AMA RECIO De as 24 3 12 1 Informahom and Status ATA Sironi 26 So Advanced Pedrera 2 Sil Recerver Parameter ENS oo adt osten Do MEI a E 20 3 2 HL2V Xmit Test Application for Transmitter Card Camera Emulator 30 3 2 1 Transmitter Application Parameter Setup rica 32 K T TOOT EO AA E AA 22 3 212 Transmit Frame Description Area aii 33 3 2 1 3 nage Options AT Aree aa an ea 35 3 2 1 4 Data Pater ATC IS RR dla 36 2121 5 Control Paranie eps Arci 37 Seek tart ras mito Dit Ddl ia 38 32 39 Advan ed P eatute S o soot lon cotto ode E E ce paso e oq cuite a 39 324 Transmitter Parameter Bile rail aa 40 GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 2 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2
21. he this pattern will be captured Control SOF Trigger Value E 25 1 Tess Gize 255 Idle _ Court 3 1 3 2 Reading Card Memory and PLD registers CAUTION This is for experience users only changing values in the registers or memory will affect to operation of the HL2V card If there is a particular Byte Address desired enter a location in the Start Addr Hex box Click the V button and the Byte Address and Pixel Value will be shown R Start Addr He 00000000 FFFFFFFF MM 00000004 FFFFFFFF 00000008 FFFFFFFF 0000000C FFFFFFFF 00000010 FFFFFFFFE 00000014 FFFFFFFFE 00000018 FFFFFFFFE PLD Regs GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 27 of 40 RevG 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc PLD registers can be viewed and changed also by clicking on the PLD button After PLD register view 19 on another option is to view the byte counts for the received frames This 1s always a good idea because it should be stable in count and reflects the actual bytes received for an image and stored to memory 00000000 00000004 00000008 0000000c o0000010 00000014 aaa SEE Start Addr Hex FFFFFFFF PI FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF Click this button to show PLD i registers 01FFFF00 00000218 P 01FFFF04 00000002 01FFFFO8 01FF7310 O1FFFFOC 00000000 O1FFFF10 0
22. istribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc Example image captured below Hi NE ES Test Prograna V2 5 Driver Gravity fi bit Co JE a a m Pa y E E na Eum b TES Ca H Asi Pe mn O oe GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 25 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 1 2 1 Information and Status Areas HL2 RecvR Test Progra PLD Ver 1030 RI PONG FPS 7 O MA H r Interrupts Get Image PING E PONG m JAYE 1 PLD version and the API version It should match the same versions that were ordered or specified This is useful information which can also be used to verify any firmware or software upgrades Always have these values available when contacting Technical Support 2 Interrupt Count and reset button This number is the interrupt count When receiving live data it will be incrementing at the video frame rate It can be reset to 0 at any time by clicking on the R button to the right of the count 3 Statistic information on this area consists of three values First is the frame rate in FPS Frames per Second Second is the DMA transfer rate in Mbytes Sec Third is the image update rate in mS This is dependant on the PC s hardware and Graphics card is shown to show if a higher performance g
23. mm Typical SMA connector dia 6 3mm 2 4 2 FCN connectors 22 5mm q p E i i uum a AP n FE ee lt HF TT E c a ASE 44587 I MP i T a SUC i ELE LA E BAL i Ai E m mi P i dia Typical FCN connector opening 11 3mm GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 8 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 5 PMC Card LED Indicators Viewed from back side as it is mounted in SBC FPGA Config done valid HL2V TX HL2V RX Frame D9 On D6 On D7 Detect D8 Note This LED might be RED this is OK Power Valid RX TX Indicators Shown with FCN connectors This is the port designated HL UPPER GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 9 of 40 RevG 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 6 Basic Memory Map Address 01 FFFFOOH FPGA Registers 01 FFFFFFH The same memory locations are used when transmitting and receiving GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 10 of 40 RevG 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 7 PCI Interface The Gravity64 HL2V cards have 64 bit PCI interfaces that run at 66 MHz The cards drive 3 3 volt logic levels on outputs and have 5 volt toler
24. nately This 1s helpful to send 2 different images continuously Also simulates motion 6 Interrupt Count shows the current interrupt count when the Auto mode is selected 7 Transmit On Indicator will show Green in color when the transmitter 1s On 8 Start Stop Transmitter button will control the transmitters flow GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 37 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 2 2 Start Transmitting Data After the above parameters are set up click on the Start Xmit button Control Start mit Hotlink Fort fe Lower te oper Frames li lo PLL ZA Enable Scroll Auto The button will change to Stop and the transmitter will be running E HL2Y_Xmit Test Program V1 8 Driver 1 Gravity 64 bit Transmitter is running If Auto is checked then the interrupt counter will be counting E Amit On Fi fz Horizontal Bars Hotlink Port Bitmap fe lower Data Source G Upper T PING done PONG H Frames 1 o E PL Header Size bytes aa Enable Scroll T Auto GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 38 of 40 RevG 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 2 3 Advanced Features CAUTION This is for experience users only changing values in the registers or memory
25. nd a signal are used and neither are tied to ground The schematic for the connectors is below Note this shows all connector options and only the FCN SMA or BNC connector will be populated REM el m in 158 DIFT T75 E x Er ETT CRIB LaLATION TH LOWER GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 16 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 12 1 FCN Connectors The FCN Connector is typically used with a twinax type of wire Refer to the document titled FCN Cables pdf on the CDROM or the installed doc files This connector 1s the easiest to use and has been tested up to 1 5Gbits sec rates It s only drawback is that it cannot be locked into place which makes it unreliable for uses that include vibration When building the cable harness it is necessary to note the pin out on the GRT FCN style connector The pin out and signal description for each the 3 pins is noted in the figure below Pini Pos Pin Heg Pinl Gnd GRT FCN Connector Front View 2 12 2 BNC Connector The BNC connector is a standard BNC type with a floating outer shield to allow for the diff pair hookup The outer shield is the Hotlink and the inner pin is the Hotlink GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 17 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37
26. raphics card is needed in the PC Fast cards will typically read about 1 or 2 mS 4 The check boxes enable the update of the GUI upon an interrupt from that area of memory Incoming frames are written alternatively to the Ping and Pong memory buffers whenever either buffer completes the reception of a frame an interrupt will be generated 1f the corresponding box 1s checked and the image update in the GUI 5 The Getlmage button can be used to manually get an image buffer from the card when the card is not running The receiver must be stopped to use this and if the Save check box is checked then the image will be stored as raw data to a file called either PING VID or PONG VID depending on the buffer indicator 6 This 1s the buffer indicator and shows where the last frame came from when the interrupt occurred GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 26 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 1 3 Advanced Features 3 1 3 1 TX Test Pattern The card can output a canned Transmit test pattern used for external loopback testing This is helpful when a real input source is not available To enable this feature click on the TX Patt On check box as shown below This transmitter pattern is a LWORD count and does not affect the receiver of the card in any way Tie a cable fro the TX port to RX port and t
27. rol Parameters Area r Control H ET E n p r Hotlink Port Y Upper SOF Trigger Value Lower Saris Paian Mi eo D y Multiframe FLLE e 0 255 1 HotLink Port This selects whether the Upper or Lower physical port is receiving the data This should be set to lower for BNC connectors and Upper for SMA and FCN connectors on the PCI card The PMC card will also use a setting of upper 2 PLL 2X Controls the Hotlink SPDSEL pin for the PLL Disabled 2 lt 400Mbits sec and Enabled gt 800Mbits sec Note For data rates 400 800 Mbits sec the card must be hardware configured This is typically unchecked 3 MultiFrame select check box controls the multiframe mode of the card This allows the receiver to capture more than 1 frame before an interrupt is fired 4 Threshold Size This is an advanced feature and this value should remain set to 1 It can be set to higher vales to fill more memory before an interrupt is fired or this is th e frame count when the multiframe checkbox above is set 5 Idle Trigger Count If the Transmitter s SOF is off then this number should match the Transmitter s value The card will trigger an End of Frame Start of Frame based on this number For example in an application where there is no SOF character sent and 16 bytes of interline nulls are sent and there are 10 000 idles between frames then the Idle Trigger Count would be set greater than 16 and less than 10 000 10
28. rved or unused If the 2 bytes pixel option is selected the Shift value is used to get the most significant 8 bits of data For example if a pixel is represented by 12 bits with the 8 LSB s in the lower byte and the 4 MSB s in the first 4 bits of the upper byte then the Shift value is set to 4 shift 4 to the left of Bit 8 in the upper byte For most 14 bit pixel cameras this value will be 6 2 Byte Swap controls the order of the bytes received in each LWORD 32bit value stored in memory This can adjust to the various Hotlink outputs The unaltered order is bytes ABCD The swaps can be programmed to BADC CDAB and DCBA 3 Header Size This number is the header size if the image has one Basically the image shown in the GUI will start at this byte address offset Typically this value is O GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 35 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 2 1 4 Data Pattern Areas Data Pattern fe vertical Bars Horizontal Bars L Bitmap Data Source PING C PONG Load Data 1 Select Vertical Bars Horizontal Bars or Bitmap If Vertical Bars or Horizontal Bars 1s selected clicking on Load Data button will load the pattern If Bitmap is selected clicking on Load Data button will open a window in which to select a bitmap file Select the file and click OK and the pattern will be loaded
29. u par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc Once the program is started successfully the main window will appear The Parameters are at the top of the test application GUI Control Area for Image Control Area Information setting frame for setting image view Memory and PLD Area parameters parameters register view area En mme Programs IT Drimer DT bit ES Lu BRL AX uva FLLI La I ri Lear Status Area Ek Tal p Bee Fra d p LE pou m Image View Area from live captured Hotlink II Video GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 21 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 1 1 Receiver Application Parameter Setup 3 1 1 1 Image Control Parameters Area r Image Control hey Fi DE Si E c EN les CA Maps 7 gt i None Header Ch 1 Pixels Line Columns The value entered is based on the size of the image that is received This number should match the Transmitter s value in pixels t 2 Lines Rows The value entered is based on the size of the image that is received This number should match the Transmitter s value 3 Bytes Pixel This number is the number of bytes per pixel This is based on the image information and for most cameras it 19 2 bytes per pixel Even if the camera is a 14 bit per pixel t
30. ve Gravity64 PCI or PMC card Received Hotlink Video via FCN or SMA connector on top port only Pass through transmitted Hotlink Video using FCN or SMA connector on top port only GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 14 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 11 2 Transmit Operation The Gravity HL2V hardware when configured as a transmitter sends the HL2V image data out of both top and bottom ports Top port only for PMC The Hotlink Il video is sent from data stored in either Ping or Pong memory stores and is formatted with nulls and special characters per the flexible programming in the card Refer to the SDK user guide for more information on this and see the transmit test application section of this document Gravity64 PCI card Transmitted Hotlink Data Transmitted Hotlink Data GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 15 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 2 12Card Connector options The Gravity Hotlink card comes with several different connector options They are FCN Transmit and Receive SMA Transmit and Receive BNC Receive only not available on PMC Note On all connector configurations it is important to remember that Hotlink is a differential type signal That means a a
31. ype camera this value will be 2 because the image actually uses 2 bytes to send the 14 bits of image data with the other 2 bits reserved or unused If the 2 bytes pixel option is selected the Shift value is used to get the most significant 8 bits of data For example if a pixel is represented by 12 bits with the 8 LSB s in the lower byte and the 4 MSB s in the first 4 bits of the upper byte then the Shift value is set to 4 shift 4 to the left of Bit 8 in the upper byte For most 14 bit pixel cameras this value will be 6 4 Header Size This number is the header size if the image has one Basically the image shown in the GUI will start at this byte address offset Typically this value is O 5 2to 1 Check this box to reduce the displayed test pattern in the Receiver application by 5096 6 2X Check this box to increase the displayed test pattern in the Receiver application by 10096 7 Byte Swap controls the order of the bytes received in each LWORD 32bit value stored in memory This can adjust to the various Hotlink outputs The unaltered order is bytes ABCD The swaps can be programmed to BADC CDAB and DCBA 8 Set Frame Size After all the values and setting have been selected click on this button to accept the changes GRAVITY HL2V USER MANUAL Page 22 of 40 Rev G 10 30 2008 GREAT RIVER TECHNOLOGY est distribu par TECHWAY www techway fr info techway fr 33 0 1 64 53 37 90 Great River Technology Inc 3 1 1 2 Cont
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