Viewing Decoded Edids; Reading An Edid From An Hdmi Display Or Sink Device - Quantum Data Gen 2 980 User Manual

980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer User Guide

14 Viewing Decoded EDIDs

This chapter describes the Generator EDID functions of the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer. There are two primary
functions currently supported by the Generator function:

Reading and displaying EDIDs from a connected sink device.

Playback captured files to test sink devices.

14.1 Reading an EDID from an HDMI display or sink device.

The procedures below describe how to read the EDID of an HDMI sink device.
To make the physical connections for an HDMI display:
1. Connect the HDMI-to-HDMI cable provided from your HDMI sink device under test to the bottommost HDMI
connector on the back of the 980 HDMI Protocol Analyzer. Refer to the picture below.
Connection for HDMI sink testing
To read an EDID from a connected HDMI display or sink device:
1. Through the external 980 GUI Manager, access the Generator/Port Control panel either through the View
pull-down menu or the Generator button located on the top of the interface. Refer to the screen shots below.
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