1. stiH display hardware IP --------------------------- The STMicroelectronics stiH SoCs use a common chain of HW display IP blocks: - The High Quality Video Display Processor (HQVDP) gets video frames from a video decoder and does high quality video processing, including scaling. - The Compositor is a multiplane, dual-mixer (Main & Aux) digital processor. It has several inputs: - The graphics planes are internally processed by the Generic Display Pipeline (GDP). - The video plug (VID) connects to the HQVDP output. - The cursor handles ... a cursor. - The TV OUT pre-formats (convert, clip, round) the compositor output data - The HDMI / DVO / HD Analog / SD analog IP builds the video signals - DVO (Digital Video Output) handles a 24bits parallel signal - The HD analog signal is typically driven by a YCbCr cable, supporting up to 1080i mode. - The SD analog signal is typically used for legacy TV - The VTG (Video Timing Generators) build Vsync signals used by the other HW IP Note that some stiH drivers support only a subset of thee HW IP. .-------------. .-----------. .-----------. GPU >-------------+GDP Main | | +---+ HDMI +--> HDMI GPU >-------------+GDP mixer+---+ | :===========: GPU >-------------+Cursor | | +---+ DVO +--> 24b// ------- | COMPOSITOR | | TV OUT | :===========: | | | | | +---+ HD analog +--> YCbCr Vid >--+ HQVDP +--+VID Aux +---+ | :===========: dec | | | mixer| | +---+ SD analog +--> CVBS '-------' '-------------' '-----------' '-----------' .-----------. | main+--> Vsync | VTG | | aux+--> Vsync '-----------' 2. DRM / HW mapping ------------------- These IP are mapped to the DRM objects as following: - The CRTCs are mapped to the Compositor Main and Aux Mixers - The Framebuffers and planes are mapped to the Compositor GDP (non video buffers) and to HQVDP+VID (video buffers) - The Cursor is mapped to the Compositor Cursor - The Encoders are mapped to the TVOut - The Bridges/Connectors are mapped to the HDMI / DVO / HD Analog / SD analog FB & planes Cursor CRTC Encoders Bridges/Connectors | | | | | | | | | | | .-------------. | .-----------. .-----------. | +------------> |GDP | Main | | | +-> | | HDMI | <-+ +------------> |GDP v mixer|<+ | | | :===========: | | |Cursor | | | +-> | | DVO | <-+ | ------- | COMPOSITOR | | |TV OUT | | :===========: | | | | | | | | +-> | | HD analog | <-+ +-> | HQVDP | |VID Aux |<+ | | | :===========: | | | | mixer| | +-> | | SD analog | <-+ '-------' '-------------' '-----------' '-----------'