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Contents

Disclaimer

General Information

Contents

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What's New?

1. Introduction

2. Unpacking and Placement

3. Quick Start

3.1. Changing Settings and Parameters

3.2. Using Cortex with Synapse

4. The GMD100 Card

5. Settings Menu

5.1. Introduction

5.2. System Settings

5.3. Video-Proc

5.4. Audio Proc Amp

5.5. Embedder

5.6. GPIO Options

5.7. Network

6. Status Menu

6.1. Introduction

6.2. SFP Status

6.3. System Status

6.4. Net Status

7. Events Menu

INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL

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Summary of Contents for Synapse GMD100

Page 1: ...Synapse GMD100 3Gb s HD SD SDI medium time delay with automatic tracking functionality Version 1 0 November 2021 INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL ...

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Page 3: ...rmational purpose and use only and subject to change without notice This manual cancels and replaces any previous versions thereof Copyright Copyright 2003 2021 EVS Broadcast Equipment SA All rights reserved This manual may not be reproduced transcribed stored in a database or a retrieval system translated into any language computer language transmitted in any form or by any means electronically m...

Page 4: ...to repair this product If a problem occurs contact your local EVS distributor NEVER expose this product to extremely high or low temperatures NEVER operate this product in an explosive atmosphere To reduce the risk of fire or electrical shock do not expose this appliance to rain or moisture This product complies with the requirements of the product family standards for audio video audio visual ent...

Page 5: ...2 Using Cortex with Synapse 5 4 The GMD100 Card 6 5 Settings Menu 10 5 1 Introduction 10 5 2 System Settings 10 5 3 Video Proc 13 5 4 Audio Proc Amp 14 5 5 Embedder 14 5 6 GPIO Options 16 5 7 Network 17 6 Status Menu 19 6 1 Introduction 19 6 2 SFP Status 19 6 3 System Status 21 6 4 Net Status 23 7 Events Menu 24 INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL Synapse GMD100 Contents iii ...

Page 6: ...8 LED Indication 26 9 Block Schematic 27 10 Connector Panels 28 Appendices 31 Appendix 1 Reprogramming GMD100 Modules 31 GNU Public License 37 ICONOGRAPHY Note Tip Warning iv November 2021 Issue 1 0 C ...

Page 7: ...The changes linked to new features in version 1 0 of GMD100 are listed below Extended range of all Audio Embedder delay settings 20000 20000 ms An upper limit to these settings is automatically applied based on the output video format and frequency See section Embedder on page 14 INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL Synapse GMD100 What s New v ...

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Page 9: ...efer 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 controller RRC18 RRC10 RRC04 RRS18 RRS04 ERC108 118 ERS108 118 manuals The method for connecting to a computer using...

Page 10: ... of 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 the card is essential as a card that is not located properly may show valid indicators but will not funct...

Page 11: ...hapters of this manual Please refer to Settings Menu on page 10 Status Menu on page 19 Graphical User Interface on page 1 and Events Menu on page 24 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 Move forward through the menu structure Go back t...

Page 12: ... Status Events The display changes to indicate that the SFS10 Settings menu item SDI Format has been selected and shows that its current setting is Auto Pressing the selects the Settings item shown in this example SDI Format Pressing or will change to a different setting e g Mode H Delay The display changes to indicate that the SFS10 Edit Setting menu item SDI Format has been selected To edit the ...

Page 13: ... modules Each Synapse frame is addressed through its rack controller s unique IP address giving access to each module its menus and adjustment items 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 Cortex please refer to the Cortex help files Further in...

Page 14: ... co timed output can for example be fed into a backup switch and seamless switching with no time hops is achieved Features Autophaser and Framesync Adjustable offset delay up to 8 seconds 3Gb s 16 seconds HD 64 seconds SD Adjustment in frames lines and pixels Tracking audio delay with offset adjustment Adjustable full transparent delay mode for video audio and ancillary data Locks SDI input or ref...

Page 15: ... timecode on main or tc reference signal does not affect the output signal and the delay hold its previous value Jump of the timecode is however not error free The card will always try to follow the timecode read from the inputs On a short glitch within its range the card jumps to that location and back There is no filter or hysteresis on this logic The maximum video delay of the card in 1080i50 i...

Page 16: ...MD100 has the following effect One flash picture and audio error Looks like one frame Due to recalculating Status sInpB 1080i50 Status sInpB_CRC_EDH OK Status sInp2 1080i50 Status sInpB_TC_Jump None Status sInpB_ATC RP188 VITC 1 Status TC_Diff_A_B 1000 fr Status Add Delay 484 fr Status IO F DelayA 856 fr Status sInpB_TC_Lost OK Status TC_Diff_A_B 1 fr Status Add Delay 4 fr Status IO F DelayA 4 fr ...

Page 17: ...Block Schematic INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL Synapse GMD100 4 The GMD100 Card 9 ...

Page 18: ...ith this item you can manually change the currently active IO settings Can be any preset between 1 and 16 By default it is set to 1 All menu settings that are preceded by the prefix under the SYSTEM SETTINGS header are part of the preset IO_Prst_Edit Here you can select which of the 16 selectable IO settings presets you want to edit Changing this will not change the active preset unless the curren...

Page 19: ... the output should be Possible settings are 1080i60 1080i50 default 1080p60 1080p50 1080p25 720p60 720p50 SD525 SD625 Output_Map_A This sets the output mapping of channel A Level A and Level B DL dual link are the possible settings In Auto default it follows the detected mapping on the input F_delayA F Delay sets the number of delayed Frames The available range is from 0 to 1936 frames dependent o...

Page 20: ...ode type to be used for delay alignment Default is off Setting can be set to Off VITC ATC or both TC_Align_SetA The TC_Align_SetA allows correction of the delay of the card according to the timecode measurement difference of the selected channel A and B Modes are Off Auto Once and Hold When set to Off the additional delay is set to 0 and the Add Delay_ Range status is set to OK In Auto the delay c...

Page 21: ... SMPTE ST352 2013 packet and overwrite the existing one for both Luminance and Chrominance When it is set to Off it will pass the packet to the output as is only on Luminance In HD 1080i for ATC LTC transparency the user may switch it Off to pass the ATC LTC HANC packet on line 10 Delay Status It is possible to display in the IODelayA and IODelayB the processing time of the card in the Status menu...

Page 22: ... bit The default setting is 0 bit 5 4 Audio Proc Amp Setting Description Audio PhaseA If this setting is set to Align the card ensures audio phase alignment between multiple audio channels and audio groups which is necessary for multi channel surround purposes If errors in the signal chain occur the de embedder blocks reset synchronously to maintain audio phase alignment If this setting is set to ...

Page 23: ...e reported by the card This setting allows you to determine how many seconds it takes before the card reports the silence This setting can be set in a range from 1 sec to 255 sec The default setting is 10sec Silence LevelA With this setting you set a loudness threshold for the silence detection Can be set between 100 and 20 dBFS When the audio goes below this value a silence alert is triggered Def...

Page 24: ...050607 Emb1_Ch09 12 08090a0b Emb1_Ch13 16 0c0d0e0f Emb1_Gain01 Emb1_Gain16 Adjusts the gain for the corresponding audio channel between 999 and 12dB Everything below 999 dB means the audio will be muted Default is 0dB Emb1_Delay01 Emb1_Delay16 Adjusts the delay of the corresponding audio channel between 20 000ms and 20 000ms Default is 0ms Emb1_Phase01 16 Adjusts the audio phase of the correspondi...

Page 25: ...atching the value provided on the selected contacts for that pool Please refer to Appendix 1 GPIs Explained on page 1 for a more elaborate explanation of the GPI settings GPI_A Mode GPI_C Mode Selects the mode for the corresponding GPI pool Possible settings are Prio Each contact triggers another value so values are one hot encoded Prio_latched This mode functions like Prio Mode but the card latch...

Page 26: ...the preferred IP address here By default it is set to 0 0 0 0 NetwPrefix0 Here you can set the specific network prefix if required mNM0 With IP_Conf0 set to manual with this setting you can set a Netmask Default is 0 0 0 0 18 November 2021 Issue 1 0 C ...

Page 27: ... Port2 Power These status items indicate the current transmitter power of the specified port on SFP output module A between 0mW and 6 55mW When a receiver is installed or no SFP module is inserted this value is 0 Port1 Pow Stat Port2 Pow Stat These indicate whether the output power of the specified port on SFP output module A is Too_High High OK Low or Too_Low Can also be NA if an input module or ...

Page 28: ...cate the current transmitter power of the specified port on SFP output module B between 0mW and 6 553mW When an input module is inserted or no SFP module is inserted this value is 0 Port3 Pow Stat Port4 Pow Stat These indicate whether the output power of the specified port on SFP output module B is Too_High High OK Low or Too_Low Can also be NA if an input module or no module is inserted Port3 Bia...

Page 29: ... B DL Level B DS Level B DSSC NA TC_Diff_A_B Difference of the timecode between video channel A and video channel B Range is 1000fr 1000fr sInpA_TC_Jump sInpB_TC_Jump Displays if there is a jump in the timecode Default is None Can be Forwards or Backwards Add Delay Displays the added delay on top of the TC_Diff_A_B status to reach the value set in the F delayA Range is 0fr 484fr Add Delay Range Di...

Page 30: ...1 and 3 are closed and for instance 01110 when contacts 2 3 and 4 are closed GPI_A Displays the current value of GPI pool A GPI_B Displays the current value of GPI pool B GPI_C Displays the current value of GPI pool C SDIADemFrmt01 02 SDIADemFrmt15 16 These status items indicate the detected audio format of each audio pair in the de embedder of SDI input A Can be one of the following formats NA de...

Page 31: ...Leased DHCP Infin Disabled or No Cable 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 INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL Synapse GMD100 6 Status Menu 23 ...

Page 32: ...5 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 Active_Out_A Active output A 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 items A message string to show what has happened in text for example INP_LOSS REF_LOS...

Page 33: ...report and control values Input_A 01hex INP_A_LOSS 81hex INP_A_RETURN Input A lost or returned Ref Status 02hex REF_LOSS 82hex REF_RETURN Reference lost or returned Active_Out_A 19hex IN_B OUT_A 99hex IN_A OUT_A Input B or input A on outputs A Priority The priority is a user defined value The higher the priority of the alarm the higher this value will be Setting the priority to Zero disables the a...

Page 34: ... signal on input x ANC Data LED Indicates the presence of embedded audio within the input signal Reference LED Indicates 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 lights up after the card has initialized The LED lights up for 0 5 seconds every time a connection is made to t...

Page 35: ...9 Block Schematic INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL Synapse GMD100 9 Block Schematic 27 ...

Page 36: ...10 Connector Panels The GMD100 can be used with the BPH32 or BHX32 The following diagrams show the pinout of the backpanel in combination with the card BPH32 28 November 2021 Issue 1 0 C ...

Page 37: ...hing mode Of the 15 pole subD connector Pin Function Pin Function PIN 1 RX2B PIN 9 GPI_4 PIN 2 TX2A PIN 10 GPI_7 PIN 3 GPI_1 PIN 11 TX2B PIN 4 GPI_3 PIN 12 LTC PIN 5 GPI_2 PIN 13 GPI_5 PIN 6 RX2A PIN 14 GPI_8 PIN 7 GND PIN 15 GPI_6 PIN 8 LTC INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL Synapse GMD100 10 Connector Panels 29 ...

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Page 39: ...me Card select Identity and check the hardware rev Knowing the hardware revision number you can go to our website www evs com and visit our download area Here you can select the card you wish to upgrade You will see a list of available firmware upgrades for this particular card The firmware files that are compatible with your card will display your card s hardware revision number in a table next t...

Page 40: ...ime Make sure that the card you are going to upgrade is currently not being used by anyone in your company Use Cortex version 1 09 01 or later This software can be downloaded from the EVS website Setting Up a Card To be able to program the card directly we need to perform two steps 1 Setting up the IP address of the card and 2 Enabling the board to be recognized as a stand alone entity To set up t...

Page 41: ...ed to go to the Network tab in the Cortex main menu to add this card Then select Add Network Device and Add ACP Device Fill out the name of the card and its IP address and select Add INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL Synapse GMD100 Appendix 1 Reprogramming GMD100 Modules 33 ...

Page 42: ...rd in the main menu then select Upload Firmware in the dropdown menu as displayed below A new window will open showing you the firmware upload functions First you need to select the spf file you want to load from the Firmware File pane as shown below 34 November 2021 Issue 1 0 C ...

Page 43: ...ck the card s in which you want to load this spf file as shown below You can load multiple cards with the same spf file at the same time When the selected spf file cannot be loaded in the card an error message will appear in the Progress pane in the lower right corner of the screen INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL Synapse GMD100 Appendix 1 Reprogramming GMD100 Modules 35 ...

Page 44: ...nce all the above instructions have been completed the card should be functioning correctly We advise however to test the card s functionality before putting it into real on air use 36 November 2021 Issue 1 0 C ...

Page 45: ... code on request either through physical distribution or electronic communication For physical distribution you may be charged a fee that covers distribution costs This offer is valid up to three years after date of purchase Please direct your request to the support department of EVS Broadcast Equipment SA EVS Broadcast Equipment SA supports open source software by participating in the development...

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