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16 years ago

DVI on Stratix II Audio Video Dev. Kit

Hello all: I am currently getting started to drive a DVI output on the Stratix II Audio Video Development Board and I am very new to it all. I have no prior experience with DVI signals, much le...
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16 years ago

I've done quite a bit with that board.

Well as far as driving the DVI chip, the datasheet is your best bet:

http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/sii-ds-0081.pdf

Basically all you're doing is driving RGB color values to the chip along with vertical and horizontal blanking signals. It's pretty straightforward.

The kit includes a test example "s2gx_sdi_dvi_1pixel_per_clk.qar" in the "Examples\ManufacturingTestDesigns" folder of the kit install directory.

Jake