1 1. stiH display hardware IP
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3 The STMicroelectronics stiH SoCs use a common chain of HW display IP blocks:
4 - The High Quality Video Display Processor (HQVDP) gets video frames from a
5 video decoder and does high quality video processing, including scaling.
7 - The Compositor is a multiplane, dual-mixer (Main & Aux) digital processor. It
9 - The graphics planes are internally processed by the Generic Display
11 - The video plug (VID) connects to the HQVDP output.
12 - The cursor handles ... a cursor.
13 - The TV OUT pre-formats (convert, clip, round) the compositor output data
14 - The HDMI / DVO / HD Analog / SD analog IP builds the video signals
15 - DVO (Digital Video Output) handles a 24bits parallel signal
16 - The HD analog signal is typically driven by a YCbCr cable, supporting up to
18 - The SD analog signal is typically used for legacy TV
19 - The VTG (Video Timing Generators) build Vsync signals used by the other HW IP
20 Note that some stiH drivers support only a subset of thee HW IP.
22 .-------------. .-----------. .-----------.
23 GPU >-------------+GDP Main | | +---+ HDMI +--> HDMI
24 GPU >-------------+GDP mixer+---+ | :===========:
25 GPU >-------------+Cursor | | +---+ DVO +--> 24b//
26 ------- | COMPOSITOR | | TV OUT | :===========:
27 | | | | | +---+ HD analog +--> YCbCr
28 Vid >--+ HQVDP +--+VID Aux +---+ | :===========:
29 dec | | | mixer| | +---+ SD analog +--> CVBS
30 '-------' '-------------' '-----------' '-----------'
39 These IP are mapped to the DRM objects as following:
40 - The CRTCs are mapped to the Compositor Main and Aux Mixers
41 - The Framebuffers and planes are mapped to the Compositor GDP (non video
42 buffers) and to HQVDP+VID (video buffers)
43 - The Cursor is mapped to the Compositor Cursor
44 - The Encoders are mapped to the TVOut
45 - The Bridges/Connectors are mapped to the HDMI / DVO / HD Analog / SD analog
47 FB & planes Cursor CRTC Encoders Bridges/Connectors
50 | .-------------. | .-----------. .-----------. |
51 +------------> |GDP | Main | | | +-> | | HDMI | <-+
52 +------------> |GDP v mixer|<+ | | | :===========: |
53 | |Cursor | | | +-> | | DVO | <-+
54 | ------- | COMPOSITOR | | |TV OUT | | :===========: |
55 | | | | | | | +-> | | HD analog | <-+
56 +-> | HQVDP | |VID Aux |<+ | | | :===========: |
57 | | | mixer| | +-> | | SD analog | <-+
58 '-------' '-------------' '-----------' '-----------'