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  • Page 1 HDMI P-Scope Quick Start Guid Rev: AP5...

  • Page 2: Chapter 1 - Getting Started

    P/N 68-00214 Chapter 1 - Getting Started This chapter provides an overview of the HDMI P-Scope. The P-Scope is an HDMI analyzer for HDMI source devices. It provides visibility into the HDMI protocol to help resolve common interoperability problems in HDMI systems.

  • Page 3: Front Panel

    What is in the P-Scope shipping box You will find the following items in the P-Scope shipping box: Quantum Data P-Scope test instrument. Ethernet crossover patch cable (P/N 30-00151) – used for connecting to the P-Scope over the LAN interface.
  • Page 4 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214...

  • Page 5: Chapter 2 - Overview Of The P-Scope Application

    P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Chapter 2 – Overview of the P-Scope Application Overview This chapter describes the P-Scope application windows. The P-Scope is an application that runs on your local PC. Main Window The main window is shown in the figure below (without any other windows open). The P-Scope window enables you to close, maximize and right-size (float) any or all of its windows.
  • Page 6 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Top level menus There are a series of top level buttons on the P-Scope graphical interface. These are described in the following table: Menu Selection Function File Quit Enables you to quit out of the P-Scope application. Instrument Reconnect If the P-Scope application has lost connection with the...

  • Page 7: Status Bar

    P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Top level buttons and their functions There are a series of top level buttons on the P-Scope graphical interface. These are described in the following table: Button Function Capture Control Opens up the Capture Control window which enables you to capture data and set up the triggers for capturing the data.
  • Page 8 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Capture Control Window The Capture Control button is used to access the Capture Control window (shown in the figure below).
  • Page 9 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 The following table defines the items in the Trigger Setup window: Item Type Options/Settings Description Capture Pull down: No Trigger (One The capturing of data begins when the Capture Method Shot Capture) button is pressed and ends when the frame capacity, defined by the Frame Count slide bar, is exhausted.
  • Page 10 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Indicates that the data that is captured, and stored for later analysis, ends at the trigger point and extends earlier in time to an amount of frames determined by the Capture Buffer % setting.
  • Page 11 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Frame Data Chart The Frame Data Chart window opens when you click on the Frame Data Chart button. It is shown below along with a table describing its attributes. You can zoom in (drill down) to a closer view of the frames by surrounding at subset with the cursor.
  • Page 12 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 The following table describes the information on the Frame Data Chart window. Item Function Packet Count Packet Count is the Y-axis (Range) of the chart. This is the number of packets (per type) that have occurred during a particular frame.
  • Page 13 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 particular frame that is selected (as indicated by the vertical blue line – frame 37 in the figure above). Clicking on the Go to Frame button will open up the Frame # Chart window. Go to Frame...
  • Page 14 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Frame Selector Window The Frame Selector Window can be opened by clicking on the Frame Selector activation button. This window is shown below in the top portion of the main window. Each frame in the horizontal list has a thumbnail of the video pattern for that frame along with the frame number in the capture buffer and the active timing parameters (horizontal and vertical).
  • Page 15 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Frame # Chart Window The Frame # Chart window can be opened from the Frame Data Chart window or the Frame Selector window. This window is shown below along with a table describing its attributes. You can zoom in (drill down) to a closer view of the lines by surrounding a subset of the lines with the cursor.
  • Page 16 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 The following table describes the information on the Frame # Chart window. Item Function Packet Count Packet Count is the Y-axis (Range) of the chart. This is the number of packets (for each particular type) that have occurred during a particular line.
  • Page 17 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 particular frame that is selected (as indicated by a vertical blue line). View Detailed Data Clicking on the View Detailed Data button will open up the Detailed Data window populated with the data from that frame.
  • Page 18 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Detailed Data Window The Detailed Data window is shown below along with a table describing its panels and attributes. You can select any transaction record to view its details in the lower panels. The Detailed Data window enables you to select the individual protocol transactions (records).
  • Page 19 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Save (Icon) Enables you to save the transactions to a file for distribution to others or for later analysis. All Packets Enables you to toggles between seeing packets or just seeing errors. (button) Delta mode Enables you to view the timestamps in relation to the selected transaction.
  • Page 20 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Video Frame Viewer Window The Video Frame Viewer enables you to see the video pattern for a particular frame. You can access this window either by clicking on the Video Frame Viewer button or by clicking on a frame from the Frame Selector window.
  • Page 21 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Zoom In Enables you access a closer or expanded view of the image. This helps you select pixels more accurately. Zoom Out Enables you view the entire video pattern. Save to Enables you to save the bitmap to a file on your PC.
  • Page 22 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Tiling Windows The Tile Frames selection enables you to tile the windows. The figure below is a depiction of a set of untiled windows and the window after that shows these windows tiled.
  • Page 23 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214...

  • Page 24: Chapter 3 - Setting Up For The Hdmi Tests With The P-Scope

    P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Chapter 3 – Setting up for the HDMI tests with the P-Scope This chapter describes the test setup for used for testing an HDMI source device. What you will need to use the P-Scope You will need the following items to use the model P-Scope: HDMI source device you wish to test Ethernet crossover cable (provided) to connect P-Scope to your host PC...
  • Page 25 P-Scope from your host PC. Connecting to the P-Scope: 1. Download the zip file containing the P-Scope application from the products page of the Quantum Data web site: www.quantumdata.com/products/pscope.asp. 2. Connect the Ethernet cross over cable provided with the P-Scope to the Ethernet jack on the back of the P-Scope and then to your Host PC.
  • Page 26 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 3. Unzip the P-Scope application and double click on the P-Scope application. The set of unzipped files is shown in the figure below. 4. Double click on the P-Scope.jar file. A dialog box will open asking for an IP address. 5.
  • Page 27 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214...
  • Page 28 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Changing the IP address of the P-Scope You can connect to the P-Scope over your corporate network, but you will first have to connect using a direct connection with the crossover cable provided because currently there is no way convenient way to change the IP address except through the P-Scope application.
  • Page 29 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 checkbox address of the P-Scope from a network DHCP server.

  • Page 30: Chapter 4 - Viewing Hdmi Protocol Data With Your P-Scope

    P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Chapter 4 – Viewing HDMI Protocol Data with your P-Scope Overview This chapter describes how to use the P-Scope to view HDMI protocol data from the HDMI source device under test. Running HDMI tests with the P-Scope These procedures assume that you have powered up the P-Scope, connected your HDMI source device, connected the Ethernet cable and established an IP connection to the P-Scope application over the Ethernet...
  • Page 31 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 No Trigger The capturing of data begins when you click the (Running Capture) Capture Data button and ends when you click the Stop Capture button. The data that is captured is the set of frames that end at the stop capture point and extend back in time to cover the set of frames whose capacity is determined by the setting defined by the Capture...
  • Page 32 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 and about 204 frames at 1080p. Capture Button Start Capture Data Causes the P-Scope to begin capturing data. Controls Stop Data Capture Causes the P-Scope to stop capturing data. Set the Capture Buffer % to control what percent of the capture buffer you want to capture. You can capture up to about 1150 frames at 576p/480p and about 204 frames at 1080p.
  • Page 33 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Page 33...
  • Page 34 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Reading the Frame Statistics on the Frame Data Chart window The procedures below describe how to read the frame statistics on the Frame Data Chart window. Reading the Frame Statistics on the Frame Data Chart Window: 1.
  • Page 35 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Navigating down to view line details The procedures below describe how to navigate down to the Frame Number Chart window from the Frame Data Chart window in order to view the various data types for a particular line. Navigating to the Frame Number Chart window from the Frame Data Chart window: 1.
  • Page 36 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 4. Click on the Show Frame button to open up the Frame Number Chart window. The following figure shows the resulting window configuration with the Video Frame Viewer window and the Frame # Chart window open.
  • Page 37 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 5. Select a line with the selector or leave the selector at line 0 which is the default. You can see the packet information in the Line Statistics panel for line 0. Page 37...
  • Page 38 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Navigating down to view detailed protocol data The procedures below describe how to navigate down to view the detailed transaction data from the Frame Number Chart window. Navigating to the Detailed Data window from the Frame Number Chart window: 1.
  • Page 39 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 The resulting screen is shown in the figure below. 2. Select a line with the blue selector (line 253 in the figure above) containing the detailed data you wish to view. Now you can see the line selector set at line 253 and the Line Statistics panel now shows the packet contents for this line.
  • Page 40 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Page 40...
  • Page 41 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 4. Highlight an AVI infoframe record to view its contents as shown below. The Detailed Data window above shows the AVI Infoframe data record selected. The AVI infoframe contents are parsed out in human readable text on the Details panel (left). The hex representation of the contents are shown in the lower right side Data panel (right).
  • Page 42 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 5. Highlight a General Control Packet record to view its contents as shown below. Page 42...
  • Page 43 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 6. Highlight an audio infoframe record to view its contents as shown below: Page 43...
  • Page 44 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 7. Highlight an Audio Clock Recovery packet record to view its contents as shown below: Page 44...
  • Page 45 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 8. Highlight an audio sample packet record to view its contents as shown below: Page 45...
  • Page 46 P-Scope Quick Start Guide – Rev. AP5 P/N 68-00214 Viewing the Pixel Values on the Video Frame Viewer You can click on a pixel in the Video Frame Viewer and reads its component values. To view a pixel value on the Video Frame Viewer: 1.

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