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 detailed listing of the video modes that the monitor is willing to accept. These modes are usually the standard VESA graphics modes, but [...]
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 MST (Multiple Stream Transport), which I didn’t touch — I really wonder if someone is going to use it. Or if that [...]
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 is an attempt to understand the rationale behind the standard’s requirements, in the hope to clarify them. This post is intended for someone who has [...]
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 disparity, and also clarifies the meaning of this notation by writing out the bit sequences of K28.5- and K28.5+. Xilinx, on the other hand, is slightly [...]
