Hardware Architecture of the Platform - 2020.2 English - XD336

Versal Base TRD Documentation (XD336)

Document ID
XD336
Release Date
2025-12-01
Version
2020.2 English

This chapter describes the targeted reference design (TRD) hardware architecture. The following figure shows a block diagram of the design components inside the Versal ACAP on the VCK190 board. See VCK190 Evaluation Board User Guide (UG1366) for more information.

Hardware Block Diagram

At a high level, the design comprises three pipelines:

Capture/input pipeline:

  • USB capture pipeline (PS)

  • Single or quad MIPI CSI-2 Rx capture pipeline (FMC + PL)

  • HDMI RX video and audio capture pipeline

Processing Pipeline:

  • Video processing accelerator funtions

Display/Output Pipeline:

  • HDMI TX display pipeline

  • HDMI RX audio pipeline

The block diagram comprises of two parts: platforms and accelerators.

Platforms:

This mainly consist of I/O interfaces and their data motion network. This is the fixed part of the design. Platforms supported in this reference design:

  • Platform 1: Single sensor MIPI CSI-2 Rx (capture), USB-UVC (capture), HDMI Tx (display)

  • Platform 2: Quad sensor MIPI CSI-2 Rx (capture), USB-UVC (capture), HDMI Tx (display)

  • Platform 3: HDMI Rx (capture), USB-UVC (capture), HDMI Tx (display)

Accelerators:

This is a block which can perform different video processing functions from Computer Vision or Machine learning. This is the variable part of the design. The accelerator and corresponding data/control interfaces (AXI-MM, AXI-Lite, interrupts) are generated by the Vitis tool and is integrated into the platform.