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Z3 Technology Z3-DM368-VI-RPS User Instructions

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User Instructions
Video Infrastructure 1080p30 System
High Definition Video Processor Module
DM368 Rapid Prototyping System
Z3-DM368-VI-RPS
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DOC-USR-0011-04
Manual Version 1.06.15a
Software Version 1.06.15
November 7, 2014
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  • Page 1 Z3. Z3 Technology, LLC incorporates HDMI® technology. The terms of HDMI and HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface, and the HDMI Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of HDMI Licensing LLC in the United States and other countries.
  • Page 2 Revision History Version Date Change Note Author 03/05/12 Original Z3-DM368-VI-RPS System 1.04.15 05/31/12 Updated SW version 1.04.16 07/16/12 Address Update 1.04.17 10/04/12 Removed Linux SDK sentence 1.04.18 02/11/13 Minor updates. 1.04.19 02/11/13 Format 1.06.03 01/28/14 Format, updated photos, instructions 1.06.03a...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    RUNNING THE CODE YOU BUILT ON THE BOARD............... 32 12.1 Method 1: Updating the Image File ................ 32 12.2 Method 2: Running Your Code through TFTP/NFS ............34 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
  • Page 4 APPENDIX A: Example of Successful Boot Log ..............42 15.0 APPENDIX B: Updating using an SD card ............... 45 16.0 APPENDIX C: Troubleshooting ................... 46 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
  • Page 5 Figure 26 Minicom Terminal Settings .................. 36 Figure 27 Minicom Paste File Selection................36 Figure 28 Example of Successful u-boot Configuration ............. 37 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 6: General Description

    DOC-USR-0011-04 1.0 GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Z3-DM368-VI-RPS development system consists of both hardware and software. The hardware provided includes one Z3-DM368-MOD system on module card and a carrier or application board, the Z3-DM368-APP- 04, which provides advanced video input and output capabilities. The bundled software includes all necessary components for the user to develop their own advanced multimedia, graphics and DSP applications.

  • Page 7: Figure 2 Z3-Dm368-App-04

    CONFIDENTIAL DOC-USR-0011-04 An application board, the Z3-DM368-APP-04 is included with the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. It measures 114 x 203mm. This application board uses the I/O expansion capability of the Z3-DM368-MOD to implement additional functions not present in the base module. The Z3-DM368-APP-04 application board has HD-SDI, HDMI, DVI, Component, Composite and VGA inputs, Ethernet, ASI, and SDI outputs, and one L/R pair of analog stereo audio inputs.

  • Page 8: Quick Start Guide

    If you’ve received a system from Z3 with the software preloaded To start working with the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS, you can go straight to Section 7.0, “RUNNING THE ENCODER,” on page 14, or Section 8.0, “RUNNING THE DECODER,” on page 22. A description of how to save to a file and play back that file can be found in Section 9.0, “WRITING TO AND...

  • Page 9: Included Parts List

    1 x DB-9 Serial Cable   1 x RCA to RCA Cable 3 x BNC to BNC Cables   1 x Z3-368-VI-RPS Documentation ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 10: Features

    1080p30, 1080i30, 1080i29.97, 1080i25, 720p60, 720p59.94, 720p50, 576i25, 480i30, and 480i29.97 *Note: 1080p60 is not supported. For 1080p60 support, please see Z3’s DM81xx line of products. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 11: Untarring And Building The Sample Code

    Untarring could take 5 to 10 minutes. Open the directory just created and run the build script (directory name may slightly vary): # cd z3-dm368-VI-RPS-20140911 # ./makeall ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 12: Figure 3 Sample Content Of Images Directory After Successful Build

    Figure 3 shows a sample result. Actual filenames, dates, and times will differ. Figure 3 Sample Content of Images Directory after Successful Build ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 13: Code Overview

    Once you have untarred the code, you will see the following top-level directories: build-tools Config files and scripts for building the codebase dvsdk The DM368 DVSDK from TI with changes for Z3 Technology hardware filesys The root file system for the DM368 target flash_utils The UBL and a tool to write it into the board’s NAND flash...

  • Page 14: Running The Encoder

    Figure 4 Connections for Encoding from HDMI (2) Connect the supplied DB9 serial cable to a PC and to the serial port of the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. (3) Connect the HDMI source to HDMI In on the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS with an HDMI cable.

  • Page 15: Set Up The Terminal Window

    (7) Connect the 12V power supply and turn the power switch on. You should see the board booting up within the terminal window. The RPS Main Menu will appear: Figure 5 Serial UI Main Menu ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 16: Ensure Your Pc Has A Proper Ip Address

    Ensure your PC has a proper IP address (8) To be able to communicate with the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS, the PC that you are communicating from needs to have at least the same first 2 parts of the IP address. For example, if the RPS has an IP address of 192.168.0.65, your PC would need to have an address of 192.168.x.y, where x.y is...

  • Page 17: Figure 7 Modifications For Encoding

    The encoder may have already started as it will automatically start in 30 seconds if a valid input is detected. If that occurs, click “Stop Encoder” first. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 18: Run Vlc To View Stream

    (14) Press “Enter.” (15) You should now see video streaming to VLC: Figure 9 Example of Z3 Video Streaming to VLC (UDP) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 19: Streaming Rtp

    (21) Open VLC. Select “Media – Open File” and select the “z3-dm368_5004.sdp” file that was copied. (22) You should then see RTP video streaming on VLC: Figure 10 Example of Z3 Video Streaming to VLC (RTP) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 20: Using Dhcp

    DOC-USR-0011-04 Using DHCP The Z3-DM368-VI-RPS also supports using DHCP to acquire an IP address at boot-up. To use this setting, complete the following steps: (23) Click the “Use DHCP” check box in the Web GUI. Once it is checked, you will see that the values of Local IP Address, Local Netmask, and Default Gateway will gray out: (1) Check “Use...

  • Page 21: Dynamically Changing Bit Rate / Frame Rate

    Case 1: Highest Quality, Highest Latency 2000 Case 2: Good Quality, Standard Latency 1000 Case 3: Normal Quality, Lowest Latency Figure 14 Tuning for Latency ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 22: Running The Decoder

    DOC-USR-0011-04 8.0 RUNNING THE DECODER The Z3-DM368-VI-RPS also supports streaming decode and display via SDI. The steps below show how to use the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS to decode a stream generated by another Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. Another example of decode can be found in the section on reading and writing files.

  • Page 23: Configure The Encoder

    DOC-USR-0011-04 Configure the Encoder (5) Go to the Encoder Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. Change the settings to match those in the figure below. Here a multicast address is used. You can also stream unicast to the Decoder by specifying the IP address of the decoding Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. Using multicast allows you to also open VLC and...

  • Page 24: Configure The Decoder

    (6) Power on the Decoder Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. (7) Follow steps (5) to (9) in Section 7.0 to bring up the GUI for the Decoder Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. (8) You should be at the System Setup Tab. From here, click on “Operating Mode” in the lower right corner and change to “Decoder”...

  • Page 25: Start The Encoder And Decoder

    (13) You can also view the content using VLC. Open VLC as you did in the Encode instructions and use the address “udp://@225.1.2.3:5004” for the URL. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 26: Writing To And Reading From A File

    Section 7.0 and Section 8.0. (2) Connect the Y, Pb, and Pr inputs of the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS to a component source, and connect L/R audio to the audio jacks. The connections to use with 2 commonly used video cables are...

  • Page 27: Figure 20 File Read/Write Main Menu

    CONFIDENTIAL DOC-USR-0011-04 (3) Boot up the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS connected to the serial interface (as described in Section 7.0). You should see the serial UI main menu (see Figure 6). (4) Choose the “Z – exit to record script” option by typing “Z” and then <return>.
  • Page 28 -If you get the message “Waiting for SD Card or Stick”, you need to connect an SD card or USB drive to the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. Once you do this, after a couple of seconds encode will start. (10) Make sure SDI output is connected (see Figure 15).

  • Page 29: Writing And Reading Jpeg Files

    DOC-USR-0011-04 10.0 WRITING AND READING JPEG FILES Writing and reading JPEG files is an option in the File Read/Write portion of the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. The example applications can be run as follows: (1) Bring up the File Read/Write menu as described in steps (1)-(4) of Section 9.0.

  • Page 30: Figure 22 Running Jpeg Decode

    “N” key to show the next picture (and cause the slide show to run forward). Figure 22 Running JPEG Decode ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 31: Exercising Other Features

    (such as generating debug logs) can also be gained from the options in the serial interface. Details on the other parameters available can be found in Section 13.0. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 32: Running The Code You Built On The Board

    Figure 23 Updating the Device Firmware from the Web Interface (3) This brings you to the Software Updater screen. Click “Browse” and browse to the directory z3- dm368/z3-dm368-VI-RPS-(date)/images and select the image file “z3-mve01-upd.img”: ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8...

  • Page 33: Figure 24 Browsing For The Image File In The Updater

    It is also possible to update the firmware using an SD card with the ZWriter tool. Details can be found in Appendix B on page 45. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 34: Method 2: Running Your Code Through Tftp/Nfs

    (note: actual directory name may be different depending on your specific release): # cd /home/z3/z3-dm368 # ln –s z3-dm368-VI-RPS-{date}/images images # ln –s z3-dm368-VI-RPS-{date}/filesys filesys ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 35: Figure 25 Editing Uboot_Envdm368.Txt

    Modify to match the IP address of your Linux PC Modify to match your TFTP configuration (see notes) Modify to match your NFS configuration (see notes) Figure 25 Editing uboot_envDM368.txt ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 36: Figure 26 Minicom Terminal Settings

    (2) Press Space to tag (3) Use <left> and <right> to select Okay (4) Press Return Figure 27 Minicom Paste File Selection ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 37: Other Available U-Boot Commands

    (5) From the u-boot prompt, type “boot” DM365 EVM:> boot You should see the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS boot the kernel obtained via TFTP, mount a file system using NFS, and then go straight to the serial menu. Appendix A shows an example of a successful boot.

  • Page 38: Summary Of Options

    Assign a password to the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. UPDATE [Button] ----- Update firmware (see page 32). Local IP Address 192.168.X.XX (192.168.0.65) Sets the IP address of the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. Local Netmask 255.255.X.X (255.255.0.0) Sets the netmask of the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS. Default Gateway 192.168.X.XX (192.168.0.1) Can generally leave as “192.168.0.1”...
  • Page 39 (Ethernet, ASI, or both). Note: RTP can only be streamed over Ethernet. For UDP ASI+Ethernet (CBR) streaming, specifying “CBR” will cause insertion of null packets where necessary. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
  • Page 40 1080i (1920x1080), 3/4 1080i (1440x1080), XGA (1280x1024), 720p (1280x720), 4/5 720p (1024x720), D1 NTSC (720x480), D1 PAL (720x576), 4-CIF (704x576), VGA (640x480) 2-CIF (352x576), CIF (352x288), SIF (352x240), QVGA (320x240), WQVGA (320x180) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 41: Decoder Options

    Stop the current decode session. [Button] Start Decoder ----- Start a decode session. [Button] Status Idle, Stopped, Running Current status of the decoder. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 42: Appendix A: Example Of Successful Boot Log

    Mounting local filesystems: mount mount: mounting /dev/root on / failed: No sucy failed (1: ). Setting up networking ...ln: /etc/network/run: Read-only file system Starting hotplug subsystem: pci [success] ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
  • Page 43 Number of bbt blocks: 0 Block size 131072, page size 2048, OOB size 64 Dumping data starting at 0x00040000 and ending at 0x00060000... ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...
  • Page 44 W -- Save User Settings X -- Exit Y -- Load Factory Default Settings Z -- Exit to record script +============================================================== ---- enter option: ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

  • Page 45: Appendix B: Updating Using An Sd Card

    15.0 APPENDIX B: Updating using an SD card Besides using the Web interface, it is also possible to update the firmware of the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS using an SD card. The process requires a Windows PC, an SD card, and the ZWriter tool (included with the RPS).

  • Page 46: Appendix C: Troubleshooting

    -Is the Ethernet cable plugged in to the Z3-DM368-APP board solidly (do you see the link light)? -Do the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS IP address and the PC IP address have the same first 2 values (or, if netmask is set to 255.255.255.0, the same first 3 values)? -Do the Z3-DM368-VI-RPS and the PC running VLC have the same netmask? (Default value is 255.255.0.0)
  • Page 47 -If you modified the exports file, did you remember to restart the NFS server after that? When contacting Z3 Support for additional support, please capture and include a log file with the diagnostic level set to analysis. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Z3 Technology, LLC ♦ 100 N 8 ST, STE 250 ♦ Lincoln, NE 68508-1369 USA ♦ +1.402.323.0702...

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