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Murideo Fresco SIX-A – Advanced HDMI 2.0 & HDCP 2.2 Tester & Signal Analyzer

Murideo

Fresco SIX-A

Advanced HDMI 2.0 & HDCP 2.2 Tester & Signal Analyzer

User’s Manual

Version 1.00

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Page 1: ...eam at North America 877 886 5112 International 1 605 274 6055 Murideo Fresco SIX A Advanced HDMI 2 0 HDCP 2 2 Tester Signal Analyzer Murideo Fresco SIX A Advanced HDMI 2 0 HDCP 2 2 Tester Signal Analyzer User s Manual Version 1 00 ...

Page 2: ... your SIX A and complete system under test from possible damages please don t turn on the SIX A power switch before analyzer Input is attached to tested device source repeater AVR Blu Ray Streamer etc output Please make sure that system under test is completely powered off before you insert or extract HDMI cable to any of involved devices 2 Please insert and extract HDMI cables from your SIX A gen...

Page 3: ...resco SIX A 5 What s in the Box 5 Input Output 6 Buttons Indicators see picture next page 6 Connecting the Murideo SIX A to SUT Source Under Test 7 PC Software Included 17 HDMI Tips for Installers 27 Murideo Fresco SIX A API 30 Updating Firmware 30 FCC Interference and Compliance Statement 30 FCC WARNING 30 Warranty and Getting Help 32 Getting Help 35 ...

Page 4: ... in the systems they design and further verifying that all of the components will work together Over the past few years UHD TVs have been a mix of HDCP 2 2 and 1 4 300MHz and 600MHz even to the point of varying by port The SIX A takes the guess work out of the equation and provides absolute information about HDMI components that will work and IDs ones that won t work all in a hand held affordable ...

Page 5: ...rt HDMI Distribution System over Time minutes hours days Down to the Pixel Advanced EDID Analysis Tools Hot Plug Detect Setting HDCP Analyzer 2 2 1 X Disable Audio Tests 2 Channel Multichannel Audio VU Meter Pixel Color Checker Portable Battery Operated CEC Testing Printable Reports Pair the SIX A with the SIX G and you have a test suite ready to tackle even the toughest troubleshooting jobs out t...

Page 6: ...n hot plug is detected The HPD Hot Plug Detect feature is a communication mechanism between a source and a sink device that makes the source device aware that it has been connected disconnected to from the sink device When an HDMI cable is inserted between the two devices the resulting hot plug detection instantiates a start up communication sequence The EDID information stored in the sink device ...

Page 7: ...ssing OK again selects the menu item 8 Up Down Left Right Arrows during normal operation use up and down arrows to navigate through test patterns 9 Exit Menu Blue Use to go back or exit menus Connecting the Murideo SIX A to SUT Source Under Test The SIX A can be operated manually front panel buttons or via PC interface software provided with unit and available at murideo com Manual Operation Conne...

Page 8: ... pressing any button will wake it up immediately Unit Sleep Shutdown The unit will completely shut down after 10 minutes of no activity This is to conserve battery charge and to avoid overheating if you put it back in the case without powering down Navigation To navigate the SIX A menu system start by pressing the OK button or the yellow shortcut button From there use the left and right arrows to ...

Page 9: ...ncorrect You can examine the HDR Infoframe in the PC Software under Utilities h Audio Sampling Frequency Displays the audio sampling frequency ex 48K 88K 176K etc Sample rate is the number of samples of audio carried per second measured in Hz or kHz one kHz being 1000 Hz For example 44 100 samples per second can be expressed as either 44 100 Hz or 44 1 kHz Bandwidth is the difference between the h...

Page 10: ...sc on the Blu ray player you can enter row horizontal pixels and column vertical pixels information to read the exact color coordinates or RGB triplet values for any pixel on the screen The 6A color checker will ID player induced errors that can affect calibration discs it can help diagnose color decoding errors in other devices as well Alternatively a reference SMPTE Bar pattern can be injected i...

Page 11: ...fference in an HDMI distribution system This can be used to diagnose intermittent issues in a system caused by defective sink source or repeater and their handling of HDMI and HDCP handshake and key exchange This can also be used to identify external devices causing interruption to the signal ex EMI Electro Magnetic Interference from an HVAC transformer in a commercial facility the interferes with...

Page 12: ...s the number of errors detected should be all 0 s if system is working correctly Will show the number of errors to total number of tests 58 0 would mean 58 tests and 0 errors or when there are errors it would show 58 2 or more than 0 4 VU Meter A volume unit VU meter or standard volume indicator SVI is a device displaying a representation of the signal level in audio equipment The Acoustical Socie...

Page 13: ... of passing giving you 100 confidence that the system you install works The chart above from HDMI org shows formats supported by HDMI 2 0 The chart below shows limitations of extending over CAT with HDBaseT Systems Integrators should keep this information in mind when designing and retrofitting systems Bandwidth requirements for video signals Resolution Frame Rate Chroma Subsampeling Pixel Clock 8...

Page 14: ...completes a bit error test at 9 GBPS iv 1080P60 4 5G This completes a bit error test at 4 5GBPS v 720P60 2 2G This completes a bit error test at 2 2GBPS vi 480P60 1G This completes a bit error test at 1 GBPS vii DDC Pass Fail The Display Data Channel DDC is a communication channel based on the I C bus specification HDMI specifically requires the device implement the Enhanced Display Data Channel E...

Page 15: ... 274 6055 Figure 1 HDMI Under the Hood At this writing May 2016 many cables will not pass 18 GBPS data and in fact we have only seen cables up to about 11M pass the full bandwidth signal Test all cables and links in the system to verify and document throughput and system compatibility ...

Page 16: ...late any display there are several fixed or test EDIDs with common attributes and 10 USER defined EDIDs that you can pull from any display with the COPY EDID function This will be covered in depth in the troubleshooting guide and in a video on murideo com 10 Copy EDID This function is used to COPY an EDID from ANY display you can copy 10 USER EDIDs into the device These EDIDs are placed in non des...

Page 17: ...ble Means ONLY HDMI 1 X signal will be accepted c HDCP 2 2 Enable Means ONLY HDMI 2 2 signal will be accepted d HDCP Disable Means only signals with NO HDCP will be accepted This is a great tool for troubleshooting HDCP issues and lets you emulate any HDCP scenario in the field 13 Battery Stats Provides a bar graph of battery charge level PC Software Included PC Interface This is a program that wo...

Page 18: ...ange the COM Port light to RED as seen above 2 Status Panel Left Side Of Screen The status panel is viewable from all pages and is on the left side of the screen a Close Port press to close the serial connection disconnect from the unit b COM Port this is a drop down menu for direct selection of COM port if known c Search Machine This button is used to search all COM ports 1 100 from a valid SIX A...

Page 19: ...supplied PC Control software mechanism for Serial identification for each connected SIX A device We also supplied a proprietary serial cable terminated on one side with DB9 9 pin connector and on the other side with 3 5mm aka Mini Stereo Jack with 3 contacts Serial Connection diagram e Input Port On Off This is a quick way to renegotiate the entire HDMI connection sequence f Volume This allows you...

Page 20: ...oad Image you can see the RGB Triplet color of any point of the image by i Pointing and clicking anywhere on the image ii Using the up down left right arrows iii Directly inputting a pixel location d Save after you download an image This will save the current frame as bmp for further analysis or editing This is useful for creating editing test patterns or examining color performance of various rep...

Page 21: ... provided by HDMI is limited to 30 bytes plus a checksum byte HDMI Sources are required in some cases to use the Auxiliary Video information AVI InfoFrame and Audio InfoFrame and recommended in other cases Other InfoFrames specified in CEA 861 D are optional All InfoFrames are described in detail in the CEA 861 standard b HDMI InfoFrame Analysis Report If further information is available the space...

Page 22: ...5 274 6055 ii Audio InfoFrame Communicates Channel count Coding Type Sample size Sample frequency Channel allocation and other audio specific information iii There are other types of InfoFrames that are supported by the 861 standard but are optional with respect to HDMI specification ...

Page 23: ...f keys which need to be accepted by the display and source before video audio is displayed HDMI Handshake issues occur when the display or source does not accept the keys from HDMI Distribution equipment Signal Monitor Usage a Time Slot Setting enter and interval and select either seconds or minutes this will calculate the total testing time in the box below the settings Example 1 and Seconds woul...

Page 24: ...urred Example from above Test started on May 27th at 8 37 and 32 seconds the far left 0 is second number 33 then 34 then 35 and so on This will track and is easy to calculate based on ANY time slot setting Once you have this up and running can run for up to a year you can easily go back and analyze the results A practical example would be a system where your customer complains about certain times ...

Page 25: ...x it In this example using shielded CAT5 may solve or moving components away from devices causing interference There are hundreds of uses for this feature and we will be covering many in depth in our soon to be released troubleshooting guide 6 EDID Tab Extended Display Identification Data EDID is a data structure provided by a digital display to describe its capabilities to a video source ex graph...

Page 26: ... access previously saved EDIDs The EDID files are by default saved in the directory where you installed the PC software The file you are looking for is a bin file You can rename these files to match the display model number you are dealing with c Save to File This will save the EDID that is display on screen to the directory where you installed the SIX A PC software Once the file is saved you can ...

Page 27: ...ial issues There are several utilities out there that allow you to write EDIDs directly back to the display however we strongly discourage this as you can potentially BRICK the TV If you identify an EDID problem it is best to contact the manufacturer for resolution WARNING EDID WRITE UTILITIES CAN DESTROY YOUR DISPLAY MOTHERBOARD OR OTHER CONNECTED HARDWARE IF RUN INCORRECTLY Be very sure you unde...

Page 28: ...em this will cause a hot plug event and will cause the source to read the sink EDID again and possibly return the system to normal operation Make sure everything in the system is HDCP 2 2 compliant in a UHD distribution system Clock stretching issues are common in some STB with older HDMI chipsets although they look new This will cause a no picture situation You can use EDID minder to fix this and...

Page 29: ...nd you have a test suite ready to tackle even the toughest troubleshooting jobs out there Parameter Specification HDMI Versions Supported Up to HDMI 2 0a HDCP Version Supported HDCP 2 2 and 1 4 Maximum Clock Rate 600Mcsc 594MHz Bandwidth supported 18GBPS Timings supported All VESA Video Standards with 0 59 94 30 29 97 24 23 98 fps Video Standard with 50 25 fps SMPTE 4K Timings 4096x2160 UHD 4K Tim...

Page 30: ...ass B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that...

Page 31: ...or modifications of the unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment CE mark for Class B ITE Following European standard EN55022 1998 EN61000 3 2 1995 EN61000 3 3 1995 EN55024 1998 EN60950 1 2001 Radio Frequency Interference Statement Warning This is a Class B product In a domestic environment this product may cause ra...

Page 32: ...O except in the cases listed in the Limitation of Liability Clause of this document This International Limited Warranty covers the costs of service parts and labor required to restore your product to fully functional condition MURIDEO will at its discretion repair or replace any defective products or parts thereof covered by this International Limited warranty with refurbished parts of the product...

Page 33: ...r this purpose Include the RMA your name return shipping address email address and telephone number where you may be reached during business hours inside the shipping package with the unit Any replacement unit will be warranted under these Terms and Conditions for the remainder of the original warranty period or ninety 90 days whichever is longer Refer to user manual enclosed within the product pa...

Page 34: ...SSUMES NOR AUTHORIZES ANY OTHER PARTY TO ASSUME FOR MURIDEO ANY OTHERLIABILITIES THE FOREGOING CONSTITUTES THE BUYER S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR THEFURNISHING OF DEFECTIVE OR NONCONFORMING PRODUCTS AND MURIDEO WILL NOT IN ANY EVENT BELIABLE FOR COST OF SUBSTITUTE OR REPLACEMENT COST OF FACILITIES OR SERVICE DOWNTIMECOSTS LOSS OF PROFITS REVENUES OR GOODWILL RELIANCE DAMAGES LOSS OF DATA LOSS O...

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