980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer User Guide
5.2.2 Dashboard Panel
This subsection describes the dashboard components on the top of the Real Time panel. Refer to the table below
for a description of these components.
Real Time Mode – Dashboard Items
The following items are on the Real Time dashboard:
Top Row Items – Module and Port:
Port –The Port area shows the current Rx port that is being displayed on the Real Time Mode
Card –The Card area shows the current module whose port is being displayed on the Real Time Mode
HDMI Protocol Analyzer module.
Second Row Items - Mode:
Monitor –The Monitor area
980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer module is in the HDMI monitoring mode.
Mode –The mode field provides an indication of the configuration the module is in. In the example here, the
980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer is in the Sink Emulation mode
Pass-through and Encrypted Link analyzer.
HDCP –The HDCP-related fields provide an indication of the HDCP status on all active ports. This will vary
depending on the mode (sink emulation, pass-through, encrypted link analyzer). In the example here, HDCP
is active on the Rx port and not active on the Tx port
when the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer is in the Sink Emulation mode with an HDMI HDCP protected stream
coming into the analyzer port. If the module were in the Encrypted Link Analyzer mode both the Rx an and the
Tx indications would be green. The + or – sign after the port indicates if the authentication is successful. The
Ri field indicates the number of Ri values exchanged since the monitoring began.
Third Row Items - Mode:
Video Identification (format) –The first item indicates the video identification code (if there is one)
. If the incoming video is not determined to be a CEA format, there will be an indication of
CEA VIC 0 and a note: "No Video Identification Code Available."
Resolution. The next item is the active horizontal and vertical resolution. In this example
format is 1080i so the vertical lines are indicated per field.
Scan. The next item is the scan. In this example the field indicates Interlaced
is Progressive.
Bit Depth and Video colorimetry. The next item is the bit depth and video mode. In this example the field
indicates YCbCr with 4:4:4 sampling and 24 bit color depth
options are: RGB, YCbCr 4:2:2 and deep color at either 30 or 36 bit color depth.
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. Currently the only analyzer port is the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer port.
. Currently the only analyzer module (card) is the 980
indicates what mode the module is in. In the example here the
. The other options are
. This is what you would expect
. The other option
. The other
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