BT.656 Video Capture Mode

Bits P0, P1, P2, and P3 have different states depending on the state of bits F, V, and H as shown in Table 3–3.

Table 3–3. BT.656 Protection Bits

 

Line Information Bits

 

 

 

Protection Bits

 

F

V

H

 

P3

P2

P1

P0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

1

0

1

1

0

1

1

0

1

0

0

0

1

1

1

1

0

1

1

0

1

0

1

1

0

1

1

0

0

1

1

1

0

0

0

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The protection bits allow the port to implement a DEDSEC (double error detec- tion, single error correction) function on the received video timing reference code. The corrected values for the F, H, and V bits based on the protection bit values are shown in Table 3–4. The – entries indicate detected double bit errors that cannot be corrected. Detection of these errors causes the SERRx bit in the video port interrupt status register (VPIS) to be set.

Table 3–4. Error Correction by Protection Bits

Received F, V, and H Bits

Received

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

000

001

010

011

100

101

110

111

P3–P0Bits

0000

000

000

000

000

111

0001

000

111

111

111

111

0010

000

011

101

0011

010

100

111

0100

000

011

110

0101

001

100

111

0110

011

011

011

100

011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Video Capture Port

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Texas Instruments TMS320C64x DSP BT.656 Protection Bits, Error Correction by Protection Bits, Received F, V, and H Bits

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