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INSTALLATION &
CONFIGURATION
MANUAL

2GF100/110 – 2HF100/110 –
2SF100/110

DUAL CHANNEL 3GB/S, HD AND SD

FRAME SYNCHRONIZER WITH

OPTIONAL AUDIO SHUFFLER

Summary of Contents for Synapse 2GF100/110

Page 1: ...INSTALLATION CONFIGURATION MANUAL 2GF100 110 2HF100 110 2SF100 110 DUAL CHANNEL 3GB S HD AND SD FRAME SYNCHRONIZER WITH OPTIONAL AUDIO SHUFFLER ...

Page 2: ...e quality of the user documentation Do not hesitate to send improvement requests or report any error or inaccuracy on this user manual by e mail to doc evs com Regional Contacts The address and phone number of the EVS headquarters are usually mentioned in the Help About menu in the user interface You will find the full list of addresses and phone numbers of local offices either at the end of this ...

Page 3: ...emely high or low temperatures NEVER operate this product in an explosive atmosphere Warranty EVS warrants their products according to the warranty policy as described in the general terms That means that EVS Broadcast Equipment SA can only warrant the products as long as the serial numbers are not removed Copyright 2001 2021 EVS Broadcast Equipment SA Date created 16 11 2009 Date last revised 19 ...

Page 4: ...HF 2SF100 110 Card 11 Introduction 11 Features 11 Applications 13 Block schematic 13 Settings Menu 14 Introduction 14 IO Ctrl 14 IO_Prst_Act 14 IO_Prst_Edit 14 Inp_SelA 14 Inp_SelB 14 CVBS frmt 15 Out Frmt 15 IO Map 15 Out Mode 15 Switch Back 15 F delay 16 V delay 16 H delay 16 Freeze_A 16 Freeze_B 16 Delay Status 16 Lock Mode 17 Ref Type 17 P60 P50_Sync 17 ANC_BlankA 17 ANC_BlankB 17 Freeze_Mode ...

Page 5: ...se 23 AudioStatusBits 24 emb_aud_hand_A 24 emb_aud_hand_B 24 Audio_Ctrl 24 Audio_Prst_act 25 Audio_Prst_Edit 25 Audio Dly sInp1 25 Audio Dly sInp2 25 Emb AB Mode 25 EmbA_Grp 25 EmbA1_Inp EmbA4_Inp 25 EmbA1_Inp_Ch EmbA4_Inp_Ch 26 EmbB_Grp 26 EmbB1_Inp EmbB4_Inp 26 EmbB1_Inp_Ch EmbB4_Inp_Ch 26 Emb CD Mode 26 EmbC_Grp 27 EmbC1_Inp EmbC4_Inp 27 EmbC1_Inp_Ch EmbC4_Inp_Ch 27 EmbD_Grp 27 EmbD1_Inp EmbD4_...

Page 6: ...P0 36 NM0 36 GW0 36 Events Menu 37 Introduction 37 What is the Goal of an event 37 Events 37 Announcements 37 Input_A 37 Input_B 37 Ref Status 37 What information is available in an event 37 The Message String 38 The Tag 38 Defining Tags 38 The Priority 38 The Address 38 LED Indication 39 Error LED 39 Input_A LED 39 Input_B LED 39 ANC Data LED 39 Reference LED 39 Data Error LED 39 Connection LED 3...

Page 7: ...EVS Broadcast Equipment SA 5 Example 1 44 Example 2 45 Example 3 45 GNU Public License version 2 47 ...

Page 8: ...e Synapse rack controller The local control panel is also used to back up and restore card settings Please refer to the RRC18 RRC10 RRC04 RRS18 and RRS04 manuals for a detailed description of the local control panel the way to set up remote control over IP and for frame related settings and status information Remote Control Capabilities The remote control options are explained in the rack controll...

Page 9: ...om components mounted on the board Placing the card The Synapse card can be placed vertically in an SFR18 frame or horizontally in an SFR04 and SFR08 frame Locate the two guide slots to be used slide in the mounted circuit board and push it firmly to locate the connectors Correct insertion of card is essential as a card that is not located properly may show valid indicators but does not function c...

Page 10: ... controls or the Synapse Cortex can be used to change settings An overview of the settings can be found in chapter 5 6 and 7 of this manual Front Panel Control Front Panel Display and Cursor Settings are displayed and changed as follows Use the cursor arrows on the front panel to select the menu and parameter to be displayed and or changed Press To go forward through the menu structure Press To go...

Page 11: ... Events The display changes to indicate that the SFS10 Settings menu item SDI Format has been selected and shows that it current setting is Auto Pressing the selects the settings item shown in this example SDI Format Pressing or will change to a different setting eg Mode H Delay The display changes to indicate that the SFS10 Edit Setting menu item SDI Format has been selected To edit the setting o...

Page 12: ...giving access to each module its menus and adjustment items Synapse Cortex has access to data contained within the Synapse module and displays it on a GUI The software has an intuitive structure following that of the module that it is controlling For operation of Synapse Cortex please refer to the Cortex manual Menu Structure Example Slot Module Item Parameter Setting S02 Identity S01 SFS10 Set ti...

Page 13: ...ure upgraded to 3Gb s compatibility The 2SF100 110 is limited to 270Mb s only but can also be upgraded to HD or even 3Gb s Features 3 inputs 2 SDI and 1 composite Handles complete asynchronous switching at the input Configurable output function Straight 1 1 2 2 Crossed 2 1 1 2 A only B only Compatible with the following input formats auto selecting 1080p only for 2GF100 110 Please mind that the fo...

Page 14: ... audio shuffling gain and phase control 2GF 2HF 2SF 2SF110 only Embedding and de embedding through synapse bus Video proc amp Y and C control Color corrector RGB and total gain RGB and total black Hue control for NTSC inputs Locks to a Bi Level or a Tri level sync or to an SDI input Full control and status monitoring through the front panel of the SFR04 SFR08 SFR18 frame and the Ethernet port ACP ...

Page 15: ...oadcast Equipment SA 13 Applications Transmission output frame synchronizer with backup input 2GF110 2HF110 and 2SF110 only Combining embedded audio channels of 2 inputs into 1 see image below Block schematic ...

Page 16: ...s Can be any preset between 1 and 8 By default it is set to 1 All menu settings that are preceded with a prefix under the SYSTEM SETTINGS header are part of the preset IO_Prst_Edit Here you can select which of the 8 selectable IO settings presets you want to edit Changing this will not change the active preset unless the currently active preset is the same you are going to edit All menu settings t...

Page 17: ...DL will automatically detect whether the input is Level A or Level B Out Mode With this setting you choose which input should be on which output There s 4 modes are available Straight default Channel A to outputs A1 A2 Channel B to outputs B1 B2 Crossed Channel A to outputs B1 B2 Channel B to outputs A1 A2 A Only Channel A to all outputs B Only Channel B to all ouputs Note When in A only or B only...

Page 18: ...etting allows adjustment of the Horizontal phase of the output signal with respect to the selected reference input The H Delay setting gives a delay in addition to the reference timing For example if the H Delay is set to 10 pixels the output signal will be delayed by reference timing 10 pixels The signal is delayed advanced with respect to the phase of the reference signal The available range is ...

Page 19: ...tical ancillary data only V Only blank de horizontal ancillary data only H only or blank both vertical an horizontal ancillary data H_And_V You can also choose to not blank any data Off which is also default This setting is for Channel A only ANC_BlankB With this setting you can Blank the vertical ancillary data only V Only blank de horizontal ancillary data only H only or blank both vertical an h...

Page 20: ...t of outputs B is in case of lost input Same values as Input_Loss_A are possible INSERTER This card can insert several data values in the VBI of the outputs With the following settings you can choose what you want to insert Timecode_ins Here you can set if the time code on the inputs should be copied to the outputs on or to copy the time code from input 1 to input 2 Copy 1 2 or to copy the time co...

Page 21: ...ded with a Ins prefix are part of the preset Ins_Prst_EditA Here you can select which of the 16 selectable presets you want to edit for Channel A when in a transparent mode Changing this will not change the active preset unless the currently active preset is the same you are going to edit All menu settings that are preceded with a Ins prefix are part of the preset VI InsertA You can turn VI insert...

Page 22: ...are Off no OSD Transp transparent text Masked OSD displayed in a black box Blink Transp blinking transparent text Blink Masked blinking text in a black box OSD TextA Here you can set a 10 character long text which should be displayed on screen on outputs A when the above setting is not set to Off Ins_CtrlB With this item you select how the inserter presets for Channel A are controlled Manually man...

Page 23: ... Channel B possible are all WSS values between 1_vid and 8_vid and the settings between 1_flm and 8_flm Default is 1_vid WSS ExtndB With the VI InsertB setting set to on you can select VI values with this setting which you want to be inserted in Channel B possible are all WSS values between 4 3_0 and 4 3_7 and the settings between 16 9_0 and 16 9_7 Default is 4 3_0 VI DataB With the WSS InsertB se...

Page 24: ...s 100 G GainA G GainA controls the Green gain of channel A The control range is between 50 and 150 The default setting is 100 B GainA B GainA controls the Blue gain of channel A The control range is between 50 and 150 The default setting is 100 GainB With this setting you control the overall gain of the video of channel B between 50 and 150 Default is 100 R GainB R GainB controls the Red gain of c...

Page 25: ...ackB G BlackB ontrols the Green Black of channel B The control range is between 128bits and 127 bits in steps of 1 bit The default setting is 0 bit B BlackB B BlackB controls the Blue Black of channel B The control range is between 128bits and 127 bits in steps of 1 bit The default setting is 0 bit CVBS Hue This item adjusts the HUE of the CVBS input Can be set between 90 and 90 degrees Default is...

Page 26: ...udio gain stage ramps down the selected group prior to the action and ramps up afterwards This whole process masks audio irregularities that are audible in a normal Frame synchronizer When using the Pass setting DOLBY E is transfered with minimum delay emb_aud_hand_B Embedded audio handling for channel B This card has a built in embedder de embedder and audio gain stage This menu item controls the...

Page 27: ... tracked video delay Audio Dly sInp2 2GF 2HF110 only With this item you can delay all audio on input 2 between 10000ms and 10000ms with 0 01ms increments allowing for precise control 2 sample accuracy in practice Default is 0ms This item is part of the audio presets This audio delay is calculated on top of the tracked video delay EMBEDDER Emb AB Mode With Emb AB Mode you select how the audio in gr...

Page 28: ... use these 4 audio channels for anything by setting this item to off By default it is set to Group2 EmbB1_Inp EmbB4_Inp With these settings you can select where the corresponding audio channels channel B1 till channel B4 of the outputs are coming from In this card you can choose to get the audio from the de embedder of SDI input 1 Demb SDI1 or SDI input 2 Demb SDI2 the embedder of the active input...

Page 29: ...C1_Inp_Ch EmbC4_Inp_Ch With these settings you can select which Channel of the selected input should be embedded to the corresponding output channel Can be any channel between Ch_1 and Ch_16 Defaults for C1 till C4 are respectively Ch_9 till Ch_12 EmbD_Grp With this setting you select in to which audio group 4 audio channels of the outputs you want to embed the last 4 forwarded audio channels comi...

Page 30: ...t can control the various functions in the card separately all Xx_Ctrl items of the menu With these item you can select which pool the corresponding GPI is part of and in what way it should trigger You can also choose to not use the corresponding GPI at all by setting it to Off Possible settings are GPI A part of GPI A pool triggered once Take A is closed GPI B part of GPI B pool triggered once Ta...

Page 31: ...o manual you can type in the preferred IP address here By default it is set to 172 16 1 2 mNM0 With IP_Conf0 set to manual with this setting you can set a Netmask Default is 255 255 0 0 mGW0 With IP_Conf0 set to manual this setting let you set a Standard Gateway Default is set to 172 16 0 1 NetwPrefix0 Here you can set the proper network prefix if required ...

Page 32: ... status item indicates which input is active on outputs B1 and B2 Can be SDI 1 SDI 2 or Analog sInp1 This status item indicates the presence and format of a valid signal in input 1 This is displayed as 1080P60 1080p50 1080i60 1080i50 1080p30 1080p25 1080p24 720p60 720p50 SD525 SD625 NA sInp1_VI Displays the detected VI value found in input1 This is displayed as follows 4 3_0 4 3_1 4 3_2 4 3_3 4 3_...

Page 33: ...m 6_flm 7_flm 8_flm NA no standard WSS detected sInp1_WSS Extd This item displays the detected extended WSS value of input 1 This is displayed as follows 4 3_0 4 3_1 4 3_2 4 3_3 4 3_4 4 3_5 4 3_6 4 3_7 16 9_0 16 9_1 16 9_2 16 9_3 16 9_4 16 9_5 16 9_6 16 9_7 NA no WSS extended detected sInp1_S2016 This item displays the detected SMPTE 2016 AFD values of input 1 This is displayed as follows AFD0 AFD...

Page 34: ...INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION MANUAL 2GF100 110 2HF100 110 2SF100 110 32 AFD6 AFD7 AFD8 AFD9 AFD10 AFD11 AFD12 AFD13 AFD14 AFD15 NA no S2016 detected ...

Page 35: ...value found in input2 This is displayed as listed under sInp1_WSS ext sInp2_S2016 Displays the detected S2016 value found in input2 This is displayed as listed under sInp1_S2016 sInp2 Map This item indicates whether the 3Gb s input on input 2 is Level A or Level B When the input is not 3Gb s NA is indicated sInp3_WSS Stnd Displays the detected WSS standard value found in input3 CVBS input This is ...

Page 36: ...INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION MANUAL 2GF100 110 2HF100 110 2SF100 110 34 SECAM 525 NA no input detected ...

Page 37: ...at line is detected as the switchline for channel B Can be any line between 0 and 1125 SwitchLn_LenB Displays the length of the detected switchline of Channel B in pixels SwitchLn_PosB Displays the current position on the detected switchline where the switch occurred in pixels in Channel B Only works on blanked switchlines FunctionA Displays the current function outputs A1 and A2 For the card it c...

Page 38: ...he current value of GPI pool C NET STATUS IP_Addr0 This item displays the status of the IP address It can be manual DHCP asking DHCP Leased or DHCP Infin MAC0 This item displays the MAC address of the card IP0 This item displays the current IP address of the card NM0 This item displays the current Netmask of the card GW0 This item displays the current Standard Gateway of the card ...

Page 39: ... announcement of status changes on off 0 off other on Input_A Input_A can be selected between 0 255 0 no event 1 255 is the priority setting Input_B Input_B can be selected between 0 255 0 no event 1 255 is the priority setting Ref Status Reference can be selected between 0 255 0 no event 1 255 is the priority setting What information is available in an event The message consists of the following ...

Page 40: ...1hex for Return of Input Defining Tags The tags defined for the card are Event Menu Item Tag Description Announcements 0 or NA 0 or NA Announcement of report and control values Input_A 01hex INPA_LOSS 81hex INPA_RETURN input A lost or returned Input_B 02hex INPB_LOSS 82hex INPB_RETURN input B lost or returned Reference 03hex REF_LOSS 83hex REF_RETURN reference lost or returned The Priority The pri...

Page 41: ...al on input B ANC Data LED Indicates the presence of embedded audio within the input signal Reference LED Indicated the presence of a valid reference signal on the selected reference input connector ref 1 or ref 2 Data Error LED This LED indicates a CRC error Connection LED This LED illuminates after the card has initialized The LED lights for 0 5 seconds every time a connection is made to the car...

Page 42: ...INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION MANUAL 2GF100 110 2HF100 110 2SF100 110 40 9 Block Schematic ...

Page 43: ... A HD SD SDI INPUT B HD SD SDI PROCESSED OUTPUT A1 HD SD SDI PROCESSED OUTPUT A2 GPI INPUT OUTPUT HD SD SDI PROCESSED OUTPUT B1 HD SD SDI PROCESSED OUTPUT B2 CVBS INPUT Unused inputs and outputs must be terminated with the correct impedance Please read Appendix 1 before connecting any backpanel GPI pinning Pin Function 1 GPI in 1 2 GPI in 2 3 GPI in 3 4 GPI in 4 5 GPI in 5 6 Frame Sync 1 Tracking ...

Page 44: ...g a BPH17 backpanel with fiber I O you must first set the top side dip switch on the synapse board to on This will pass 30 volt to the backpanel If this is not done the relays won t work at all Using BHX17b When using the backpanel with bypass relay BHX17b you must first set the bottom side dip switch on the card to on This will pass 5 volt to the backpanel If this is not done the relays won t wor...

Page 45: ... BHX backpanel switch after about 15 seconds from the moment the BHX backpanel detects the trigger signal from the connected synapse card This setting will allow more time for complex synapse cards to finish initialization and stabilize proper signal processing before the backpanel switches over to the processed signal The OFF setting is recommended if the BHX backpanel is used in combination with...

Page 46: ...ts using Pool A Up_CtrlA set to GPI A and the outmode setting using Pool B Out mode Ctrl set to GPI B Both pools working in priority mode We could do the following Set GPI_1 to GPI Prio A Set GPI_2 to GPI Prio A Set GPI_3 to GPI Prio A Set GPI_4 to GPI Prio A Set GPI_5 to GPI Prio B Pool A now consists of GPI 1 GPI 2 GPI 3 and GPI 4 in a priority mode controlling the Up converter preset Pool B con...

Page 47: ...PI_3 take is closed 0 0 Up conv Preset 1 1 0 Up conv Preset 2 0 1 Up conv Preset 3 1 1 Up conv Preset 4 Pool B now works as follows GPI_4 status GPI_5 status Set value 0 0 Audio Preset 1 1 0 Audio Preset 2 0 1 Audio Preset 3 1 1 Audio Preset 3 because highest gets priority Example 3 Let s say we would like to control the up converter presets using Pool A Up_CtrlA set to GPI A in priority mode the ...

Page 48: ... follows GPI_1 status GPI_2 status Set value 0 0 Up conv Preset 1 1 0 Up conv Preset 2 0 1 Up conv Preset 3 1 1 Up conv Preset 3 because highest gets priority Pool B now works as follows GPI_3 status GPI_4 status Set value 0 0 Audio Preset 1 1 0 Audio Preset 2 0 1 Audio Preset 3 1 1 Audio Preset 3 because highest gets priority Pool C now works as follows GPI_5 status Set value 0 A out only 1 B out...

Page 49: ...e 2 You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it thus forming a work based on the Program and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above provided that you also meet all of these conditions a You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the fi les and the date of any change b You must cause any...

Page 50: ... any other reason not limited to patent issues conditions are imposed on you whether by court order agreement or otherwise that contradict the conditions of this License they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations then as a consequence you may not distribu...

Page 51: ...WITH YOU SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING REPAIR OR CORRECTION 12 IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES INCLUDING ANY GENERAL SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING O...

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