BELK-TN-003: Video processing and hardware/software partitioning

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History[edit | edit source]

Version Date Notes
1.0.0 June 2016 First public release

Introduction[edit | edit source]

This white paper describes a video processing system that has been built upon Bora/BoraEVB. This system has functional and safety requirements that have to be satisfied.

From the functional point of view, it is required to (FR denotes a functional requirement):

  • FR1 acquire two independent video streams
  • FR2 mix the input stream and visualize them on a HDMI monitor
  • FR3 visualize informational and statistical data on an 7" LVDS TFT LCD.

Safety requirements (SR for short) are:

  • SR1FR1 and FR2 have to be enabled as quickly as possible upon power-up
  • SR1apart from initialization, FR1 and FR2 have to be independent on the execution of the software; in other words, they keep to be satisfied even if software hangs.

The implementation combines different techniques that are available on Zynq platform to implement a hardware/software partitioning that allows to meet system requirements.

Implementation[edit | edit source]

The following picture shows a simplified block diagram of the entire system [1].


Concept block diagram of the system without monitoring subsystem


At hardware level, the natural PS/PL partitioning has been exploited: the processing video chain is entirely implemented in the PL, while PS domain is used for initializing, supervisioning and informational data visualization.

PL subsystem[edit | edit source]

PS subsystem[edit | edit source]

(for more details see also this white paper)

[1] At the time of this writing not all of the shown modules have been completed.

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