Summary - 1.2 English

HDMI 2.1 Transmitter Subsystem v1.2 Product Guide (PG350)
Document ID
PG350
Release Date
2024-11-13
Version
1.2 English

The HDMI 2.1 TX Subsystem allows users to customize the example design based on their system requirements. The following table shows a summary of the hardware required for each targeted board, supported processors, topologies, and the corresponding AMD Vitis™ software platform import example options.

Table 1. Example Design Support Summary
Development Boards Additional Hardware Processor Topology Vitis Import Example
ZCU102/ZCU106 HDMI 2.1 FMC (TB-FMCH-VFMC-HDMI) Daughter Card A53 Pass-Through Passthrough_A53
VCU118 HDMI 2.1 FMC (TB-FMCH-VFMC-HDMI) Daughter Card MicroBlaze™ Pass-Through Passthrough_Microblaze
ZCU106 HDMI 2.1 FMC (TB-FMCH-VFMC-HDMI) Daughter Card A53 Pass-Through with Advance Features Passthrough_A53
VCK190 HDMI 2.1 FMC (TB-FMCH-VFMC-HDMI) Daughter Card A72 Pass-Through Passthrough_A72
VEK280 N/A A72 Pass-Through Passthrough_A72_VEK
  1. The Pass-Through design on VEK280 (REV-A) Board supports only up to an FRL Rate of 8 Gbps.
  2. The Pass-Through with Advance Features example design supports VRR, QFT, QMS, ALLM, and Dynamic HDR. Supports only 8bpc for 8kp60 YUV 420, 8kp30, and 4kp120 RGB/YUV44 resolutions.
  3. The example designs supports only up to 8 Channel Audio.
  4. HDMI 2.1 pass through example does not support Audio N/CTS conversion in case of TX and RX are in different FRL rates
Important: AMD recommends to use only HDMI 2.1 Category 3 (ULTRA HIGH SPEED HDMI) certified cables for Fixed Rate Link Video Receive/Transmit. The HDMI 2.1 FRL Mode is tested with the Belkin 48 Gb/s HDMI 2.1 Ultra High Speed HDMI (Category 3) cable.
Note: Contact Inervium/Tokyo Electron Device for HDMI 2.1 FMC (TB-FMCH-VFMC-HDMI) Daughter Card (https://us.teldevice.com/product/tb-fmch-vfmc-hdmi/).