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Using CVO for NTSC output

Altera_Forum
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Hi All, 

I have a question that I have been battling for a couple of days. I am trying to use Altera's CVO IP to output NTSC video. I have tried to use the NTSC setting on the CVO but it automatically selects the Embedded sync options, but I need the sync signals on separate wires because my Video DAC requires the sync signals. This is the setup that I have: TPG -> CVO. I am using Quartus 13.0. Here are the settings that I am using for the TPG and the CVO. The pixel clock frequency I am using is 27Mhz. 

 

 

TPG settings: 

image width: 720 

image height: 488 

Bits per pixel per color plane: 8 

Color space: RGB 

Output format: 4:4:4 

Color plane configuration: Parallel 

interlacing: interlace output (F0 first) 

pattern: Color bars 

 

CVO settings: 

image width: 720 

image height: 487 

Bits per pixel per color plane: 8 

Number of color planes: 3 

Color plane format: parallel 

Interlaced video: checked 

Syncs signals: On separate wires 

 

Active picture line: 20 

 

Field 1 

Horizontal sync: 138 

hfp: 0 

hbp: 0 

Vertical sync: 19 

vfp: 0 

vbp: 0 

 

Field 0 

F rising edge line: 266 

F falling edge line: 4 

Vertical blanking rising edge line: 264 

 

Vertical sync: 19 

vfp: 0 

vbp: 0 

 

pixel fifo size: 720 

Fifo level : 719 

 

I am not getting anything out on the screen with this setup. Can you guys shed some light on what I am doing wrong. Thank you for your help.
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