IM2
Display Port 1.1a
This course covers the Display Port multimedia interface
Objectives
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- A basic knowledge of multimedia standards (audio & video).
- Theoretical course
- PDF material in English (printed for face-to-face); online over Teams.
- Trainer assistance throughout.
- Each session starts with a trainee check-in.
- Any embedded systems engineer or technician with the above prerequisites.
- Prerequisites are checked before the course starts, against the prerequisites published on this page.
- Throughout the course, learning is assessed continuously: end-of-section quizzes and direct observation by the trainer.
- At the end of the course, each participant receives a training completion certificate.
Course Outline
- Chip-to-Chip or box-to-box utilization
- Layered architecture
- Pinout
- Forward drive channel and bi-directional auxiliary channel
- Mechanical specification
- Dual mode devices
- Hot plug / Unplug detect circuitry
- Main channel
- 8b10b coding scheme, running disparity
- Clock recovery logic
- Channel equalization sequence
- Scrambling, whitening the spectrum, Scrambler reset
- Link quality measurement
- Transmitter and receiver electrical specifications
- Drive current and pre-emphasis level control
- Jitter requirements
- Auxiliary channel
- Manchester II coding, self-clocking
- Sync pattern, Stop condition
- AC coupling
- Compliance test specification
- Isochronous transport services over the main link
- Enhanced framing mode
- Link symbols over the main Link without video stream
- Adapting the stream rate to the link rate
- Stream reconstruction in the Sink
- Extracting the secondary data packet
- Stream clock recovery, synchronous vs asynchronous clock modes
- Secondary–data packet types, purpose of InfoFrames packets
- Auxiliary channel
- Link and device management over the auxiliary channel
- Source state machine
- Arbitration control
- Policy maker
- Mapping of I2C onto AUX CH syntax
- Address mapping for DPCD
- Compliance test specification
- Device services test procedures
- Device Link services test procedures
- Video standard basics, SDTV, EDTV, HDTV
- Pixel mapping onto link lanes according to pixel coding
- Video timing format
- Direct drive display specification
- Embedded Display Port
- Audio basics, L-PCM coding, IEC standards
- Speakers mapping
- Scheduling of audio stream packet transmission
- Source / Sink device interoperability, audio format
- Structure of audio stream packets
- The Display Data Channel [DDC] usage during configuration
- AVI info frame
- Audio info frame
- E-EDID data structure
- Source device behavior upon HPD pulse detection
- HDCP specification (DRM)
- Authentication of devices allowed to play HD content
- Computation of shared key
- HDCP over Display Port
- Application to DVD-audio and super-audio CD
- DPCP specification
- DPCP bulk encryption / decryption blocks
- AUX CH transactions for DPCP
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To book a training session or for more information, please contact us on info@ac6-training.com.
Registrations are accepted till one week before the start date for scheduled classes. For late registrations, please consult us.
You can also fill and send us the registration form
This course can be provided either remotely, in our Paris training center or worldwide on your premises.
Scheduled classes are confirmed as soon as there is two confirmed bookings. Bookings are accepted until 1 week before the course start.
Last update of course schedule: 27 June 2026
Booking one of our trainings is subject to our General Terms of Sales
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