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ADV7625/ADV7626/ADV7627 OSD graphic capabilities using Fbox, Ibox and Tbox
Overview
The ADV7625/ADV7626/ADV7627 offer a simple low cost on screen display for video overlay on HDMI. The hardware implementation intents the use of Text box ( Tbox), filled boxes ( Fbox) and icon boxes (Ibox) to create basic text based OSD overlay. The hardware offered only 16×16 resolution for text characters with ability to scale from 1 to 15 using pixel repetition. The pixel repetition in most cases does not provide good quality text as a result. The Blimp OSD Designer software tool abstracts the drawing hardware components by optimizing their use by using them all as graphic components that can display both images or text and can span across multiple 16×16 boundaries in the case of Tboxes to create larger high quality fonts. On larger resolutions like 1080p and 4k, a compromise will usually have to be made between limit OSD content or using scaling to have more content but with lower resolution.
This application note details the capabilities of the ADV7625 OSD as implemented in Blimp. with these guidelines, user can plan the graphic and text layout of each pages for their OSD design. the best way to verify is by using Blimp to add graphics and text to a page and test it with the OSD hardware emulator which comes with Blimp. For Blimp download and documentation, see Blimp OSD Designer tool for NatureVue™ ADV800x and Advantiv® ADV7625.
Reference parts
ADV7625 - 3GHz HDMI 5:2 cross point Transceiver with On-Screen Display
ADV7626 - 3GHz HDMI 2:2 cross point Transceiver with On-Screen Display
TBox
- Each Tbox has 256×16 pixels. Each Tbox uses 16×16 blocks from graphic memory assigner by index.
- Graphic memory: Up to 256 unique blocks of 16×16 pixels with for each color = 65536 pixels ( Graphic memory of 256 16×16 blocks)
- Blocks of n multiple of 16×16 can be reused for maximum of 262144 pixels ( 640 256×16 blocks) Example: 16×16 blocks that are all same color or pattern can be reused.
Limitations
- Limit of 2560 pixels horizontally. Can be grouped by multiple of 160 pixels blocks in width.
- Height can be grouped by a multiple of 16 pixels block
- Up to 16 colors can be displayed at any time. So different pages cold use different set of 16 colors. This needs to be discussed during page layout when defining demo graphics. We will clearly indicate which images are by pages. Each color uses overlapped display memory from above.
Table 1: Tbox image size limits by number of colors ( with scaling = 1 )
| # colors | Pixels span Tbox limit ( if some glyphs are identical)) | Pixel span Glyph limit ( can be more if some 16×16 blocks are re-used) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 262144 ( 64 blocks of 256 x 16) | 65536 |
| 2 | 131072 ( 32 blocks of 256 x 16) | 32768 |
| 3 | 86016 ( 21 blocks of 256 x 16) | 21760 |
| 4 | 65536 ( 16 blocks of 256 x 16) | 16384 |
| 5 | 49152 ( 12 blocks of 256 x 16) | 13056 |
| 6 | 40960 ( 10 blocks of 256 x 16) | 10752 |
| 7 | 36864 ( 9 blocks of 256 x 16) | 9216 |
| 8 | 32768 ( 8 blocks of 256 x 16) | 8192 |
| 9 | 28672 ( 7 blocks of 256 x 16) | 7168 |
| 10 | 28672 ( 6 blocks of 256 x 16) | 6400 |
| 11 | 20480 ( 5 blocks of 256 x 16) | 5888 |
| 12 | 20480 ( 5 blocks of 256 x 16) | 5376 |
| 13 | 16384 ( 4 blocks of 256 x 16) | 4864 |
| 14 | 16384 ( 4 blocks of 256 x 16) | 4608 |
| 15 | 16384 ( 4 blocks of 256 x 16) | 4352 |
| 16 | 16384 ( 4 blocks of 256 x 16) | 4096 ( same as Ibox) |
Ibox
- Up to 64 blocks of 8×8 pixels with 32 colors support = 4096 pixels.
- Blocks of n multiple of 8×8 can be reused for maximum of 8192 pixels ( 128 8×8 blocks)
Limitations
- Limit of 80 pixels horizontally. Can be grouped by multiple of 8 pixels blocks in width.
- Height can be grouped in multiple for 8 pixels
- Up to 32 colors at any time on a page
Fbox
- Rectangular boxes with border
- Up to 64 boxes of any width and height with border of 1 or few pixels. Top bottom left and right border can be enabled/disabled individually.
- Up to 8 color sets with fbox color and border color pair.
Scaling
- The size shown above are with both vertical and horizontal scaling to 1.
- The size can be increased by the scaling factor while losing resolution quality
- Usually, a compromise needs to be made between size and quality.
Graphics examples
Luminance gradient
- Ibox: 32 color luminance gradient. Limited to Ibox size
- Fbox: Each Fbox can specify box color and border. By activating only one boarder, a 16 color vertical or horizontal box can be created.
- Tbox: Only 16 color gradient possible
Support
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