Overview; Operational Workflow For Capturing Data With Your 980 Hdmi Protocol Analyzer; Setting The 980 Hdmi Protocol Analyzer Mode To Hdmi - Quantum Data Gen 2 980 User Manual

980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer User Guide
8 Analyzing HDMI Data with your 980 Protocol Analyzer Gen 2
This chapter describes how to use the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer to view HDMI protocol data from the HDMI
source device under test.
8.1

Overview

These procedures assume that you have powered up the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer, connected your HDMI
source device (and possibly sink device if you are testing in the optional pass-through mode), connected the
Ethernet cable and established an IP connection from the 980 GUI Manager running on your PC to the 980
Protocol Analyzer application. You should now have the 980 GUI Manager open on your PC.
8.2 Operational workflow for capturing data with your 980 HDMI Protocol
Analyzer
This subsection describes how to use the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer to capture and analyze HDMI source
devices. It assumes you have established a connection to the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer from the 980 GUI
Manager. Testing an HDMI source device involves the following high level steps:
1. Configure the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer in the proper mode HDMI.
2. Determine what operational configuration you are using: 1) Sink Emulation, 2) Pass-Through, 3) Encrypted
Link Analyzer. If you are using the Pass-Through or Encrypted Link Analyzer configuration connect an HDMI
display device to the HDMI Tx port. If using the Sink Emulation mode you do not need to connect any device
to the HDMI Tx port.
3. Setting the desired HDCP mode (enabled or disabled).
4. Set the +5V threshold level
5. Configure the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer Rx port with the proper EDID.
6. View the incoming video in real time to check the status of the device under test.
7. Specify a trigger method.
8. Specify the data that you want to capture and how much data you want to capture.
9. Initiate the capturing of the data.
10. Examine the test data through the 980 GUI Manager at the high level view on the Event Plot panel or the
Video Analysis panel.
11. Drill down to examine the data at the lower level through the details of the Data Decode panel view.
12. (Optional) You may wish to view the protocol data (guard band and preamble bits).
13. Use the analysis tools (Video Analysis, Timing Analysis, Audio Analysis, AVmute Test) to examine the data.
8.3

Setting the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer mode to HDMI

Use the following procedures to set the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer to the HDMI mode.
To set the 980 mode to HDMI:
1. From the Instrument menu, select the Link Mode.
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