CameraLink HS is the serial plus parallel communication protocol developed by AIA(Advanced Imaging Association) to support the video,image and other data between a source device Camera and sink device Frame Grabber. Camera Link High Speed VIP can be used to verify transmitter or Receiver device following the CamerLink HS basic protocol as defined in CameraLink HS.
Camera Link HS Verification IP is supported natively in SystemVerilog, VMM, RVM, AVM, OVM, UVM, Verilog, SystemC, VERA, Specman E and non-standard verification env
Camera Link HS Verification IP comes with optional Smart Visual Protocol Debugger (Smart ViPDebug), which is GUI based debugger to speed up debugging.
- Features
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- Full Camera Link HS transmitter device and receiver device functionality.
- Supports Transmitter and Receiver Mode.
- Supports following message packets,
- 7 different pulse (trigger) modes of operation
- 32 GPIO
- Video Message
- Command Message
- Acknowledge Message
- Revision Message
- Supports 8,10,12,14,16 bit depth.
- Supports Color Pixel formats in both Mixed and Planar data presentations
- Supports Ack/Nack/Resend message for hand-shaking
- Supports Packet Interruption based on message priority.
- Supports Packetization upto 8 Cables.
- Supports upto 15 data lanes in each Single Cable.
- Supports 3 Gbps data rate in M-Protocol.
- Supports 10 Gbps data rate in X-Protocol.
- Supports 8B/10B Encoding in M-Protocol.
- Supports 64B/66B Encoding in X-Protocol.
- Supports Forward Error Correction (FEC) in X-Protocol.
- Supports packing of all the video formats supported by the Camera Link HS v1.0 specifications.
- Supports Command Message Packet format based on GenCP v1.1 specifications
- Supports Raw,Mono,B,G,R,BGR,BGRa,Bayer GR,Bayer RG,Bayer GB,Bayer BG color format.
- Supports Device control register set as per Camera Link HS v1.0 specifications.
- Monitors, detects and notifies the test bench of significant events such as transactions, warnings, timing and protocol violations.
- Status counters for various events on bus.
- Callbacks in node transmitter, receiver and monitor for user processing of data.
- Camera Link HS Verification IP comes with complete test suite to test every feature of Camera Link HS v1.0 specifications.
- Functional coverage for complete Camera Link HS features.
- Benefits
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- Faster testbench development and more complete verification of Cameralink High Speed designs.
- Easy to use command interface simplifies testbench control and configuration of receiver and transmitter.
- Simplifies results analysis.
- Runs in every major simulation environment.
- Cameralink HS Verification Env
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SmartDV's Cameralink HS Verification env contains following.
- Complete regression suite containing all the Cameralink HS testcases.
- Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of Transmitter, Receiver and Monitor.
- Detailed documentation of all class, task and function's used in verification env.
- Documentation contains User's Guide and Release notes.
