OmniTek Ultra 4K Tool Box User manual

Ultra
4K Tool Box
User Guide
Version: 2.0a
August 2015

Ultra v2.0a User Guide
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Ultra v2.0a User Guide
Contents
Section 1: General
A: Equipment Guide ................................................................................................................. A-1
A.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................. A-1
A.1.1 Safety Statement .............................................................................................. A-1
A.1.2 System Features ............................................................................................... A-2
A.1.3 Front and Rear Panels ...................................................................................... A-4
A.1.4 Instrument Options .......................................................................................... A-5
A.2 Installation ............................................................................................................... A-7
A.2.1 Preliminary steps: ............................................................................................ A-7
A.2.2 Typical Set-Up ................................................................................................ A-7
A.2.3 Set-Up Options ................................................................................................ A-8
A.3 Power Up ............................................................................................................... A-10
A.3.1 Power Requirements ...................................................................................... A-10
A.3.2 Start-Up Procedure ........................................................................................ A-10
A.3.3 Shutting Down ............................................................................................... A-11
A.4 The User Interface.................................................................................................. A-12
A.4.1 Button Bars .................................................................................................... A-12
A.4.2 ‘Properties’ .................................................................................................... A-13
A.4.3 User Interface Controls .................................................................................. A-13
A.4.4 Keyboard Alternatives ................................................................................... A-15
A.4.5 Presets Toolbar .............................................................................................. A-16
A.4.6 Saving Settings etc. to Disk ........................................................................... A-16
A.5 System Information ................................................................................................ A-17
A.5.1 System Details ............................................................................................... A-17
A.5.2 System Facilities ............................................................................................ A-19
A.5.3 Updating to the Latest Version ....................................................................... A-20
A.5.4 Installing Additional Facilities ....................................................................... A-20
B: System Configuration & Control ........................................................................................ B-1
B.1 Inputs, Outputs & Internal Connections: the Connections window ........................... B-1
B.1.1 Making Connections ........................................................................................ B-3
B.1.2 Selecting SDI Inputs ........................................................................................ B-4
B.1.3 Selecting SDI Outputs ..................................................................................... B-5
B.1.4 Using the DisplayPort Output .......................................................................... B-5
B.1.5 Setting the Output Video Standard ................................................................... B-5
B.1.6 Genlock ........................................................................................................... B-6
B.1.7 Interpolation Filter ........................................................................................... B-7
B.1.8 Connections needed to display Picture Images on a Monitor ............................ B-8
B.2 System Configuration .............................................................................................. B-9
B.2.1 Video Parameters ........................................................................................... B-10
B.2.2 System Parameters ......................................................................................... B-12
B.2.3 Licensed Facilities ......................................................................................... B-13
B.3 Presets ................................................................................................................... B-13
B.3.1 Recording Presets .......................................................................................... B-14
B.3.2 Preset Selection ............................................................................................. B-14
B.3.3 Changing the Name of a Preset ...................................................................... B-14
B.3.4 Deleting a Preset ............................................................................................ B-15
B.4 Import/Export of Settings etc. ................................................................................ B-15
B.4.1 Overview ....................................................................................................... B-15
B.4.2 Exporting Presets ........................................................................................... B-15
B.4.3 Importing Presets ........................................................................................... B-16

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C: Automated Control .............................................................................................................. C-1
C.1 Background .................................................................................................................. C-1
C.2 Set-up ........................................................................................................................... C-2
C.3 Scope ............................................................................................................................ C-3
C.4 Automating a Test Procedure ....................................................................................... C-5
Section 2: Conversion Facilities
D: Format Conversion .............................................................................................................. D-1
D.1 Overview ...................................................................................................................... D-1
D.2 Setting up the Ultra to carry out the Required Conversion .......................................... D-2
G: Additional SDI Output Features ........................................................................................ G-1
G.1 Interlink Delay Insertion .............................................................................................. G-2
G.2 Jitter Insertion ............................................................................................................... G-3
G.3 Output Voltage and Slew Rate Control (SDI 4 only) ................................................... G-4
Section 3: Signal Analysis
H: The Viewer Window ............................................................................................................ H-1
H.1 Overview ...................................................................................................................... H-1
H.1.1 Screen Layout ...................................................................................................... H-2
H.2 Viewer Window Operations ......................................................................................... H-3
H.2.1 View Selection ..................................................................................................... H-3
H.2.2 Switching between Full Screen and Multiple Tile displays ................................ H-3
H.2.3 Configuring a View ............................................................................................. H-5
H.3 Focus of Analysis ......................................................................................................... H-5
H.4 Saving and Recalling Specific Tile Selections ............................................................. H-6
I: Pixel Data ................................................................................................................................ I-1
I.1 The Focus of the Display and its Movement Pixel-by-Pixel ........................................ I-2
I.2 Data View ...................................................................................................................... I-4
I.2.1 Configuration ........................................................................................................ I-6
I.3 Cable View .................................................................................................................... I-6
I.4 Ancillary Data Viewer .................................................................................................. I-7
J: Picture View ........................................................................................................................... J-1
J.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................... J-1
J.2 Displaying Picture Images ............................................................................................ J-2
J.2.1 System Setup ........................................................................................................ J-2
J.2.2 Picture View Selection ......................................................................................... J-3
J.2.3 Display Options .................................................................................................... J-3
J.3 Cursor ............................................................................................................................ J-3
J.4 Safe Action / Safe Title Cages ...................................................................................... J-4
J.4.1 Set-Up ................................................................................................................... J-5
J.4.2 Displaying the cages ............................................................................................. J-7
J.5 Zoom View .................................................................................................................... J-8
K: Image/Sequence Capture .................................................................................................... K-1
K.1 Overview ...................................................................................................................... K-1
K.2 Capturing images/sequences from the current input .................................................... K-2
K.3 Using Captured Images as Test Patterns ...................................................................... K-3
K.4 Allocating Memory to Capture .................................................................................... K-4

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L: Waveform Display ................................................................................................................ L-1
N: Gamut Analysis .................................................................................................................... N-1
N.1 Gamut Meters ............................................................................................................... N-1
N.1.1 Setting the Permitted Ranges ............................................................................... N-2
N.1.2 Selecting the Colour Components to be Displayed ............................................. N-2
O: Status ..................................................................................................................................... O-1
O.1 The Status View ........................................................................................................... O-1
O.1.1 Selection .............................................................................................................. O-2
O.1.2 Error Ranges, Persistence and Severity ............................................................... O-2
O.1.3 Resetting Error Counts ........................................................................................ O-2
O.2 Video Information Displayed ....................................................................................... O-2
Section 4: Physical Layer Analysis
S: Eye & Jitter Measurement ....................................................................................................S-1
S.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................S-1
S.1.1 Facilities Offered ..................................................................................................S-3
S.1.2 Set-Up ...................................................................................................................S-3
S.2 Eye Waveform ...............................................................................................................S-4
S.2.1 Selecting the Eye Waveform display ....................................................................S-5
S.2.2 Configuring the Eye Waveform display ...............................................................S-5
S.2.3 Obtaining Signal Parameters from the Eye Waveform ........................................S-6
S.2.4 Transmission Integrity ..........................................................................................S-6
S.3 Jitter ...............................................................................................................................S-7
S.3.1 Selecting Jitter displays ........................................................................................S-7
S.3.2 Jitter Meters ..........................................................................................................S-7
S.3.3 Jitter Spectrum ......................................................................................................S-9
S.3.4 Jitter Histogram ..................................................................................................S-11
S.3.5 Jitter Waveform ..................................................................................................S-12
S.3.5 Jitter Insertion .....................................................................................................S-13
T: Timing Measurement ........................................................................................................... T-1
T.1 Overview ...................................................................................................................... T-1
T.2 Set-Up ........................................................................................................................... T-2
T.2.1 Set-Up for Measurement against an External Reference Signal ......................... T-2
T.2.2 Set-Up to give Line-Based Timings .................................................................... T-3
T.3 Comparing the Timing of Constituent Inputs .............................................................. T-3
T.4 Comparing Timing against an External Reference ...................................................... T-4

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Section 5: Generator
V: Generator Basics .................................................................................................................. V-1
V.1 The Generator Window ................................................................................................ V-1
V.1.1 Selecting the Generator Window ......................................................................... V-2
V.1.2 Controls ............................................................................................................... V-2
V.2 Test Patterns from Still Images .................................................................................... V-3
V.2.1 Importing Still Images ......................................................................................... V-3
V.2.2 Playing Out Test Patterns .................................................................................... V-4
V.2.3 Image Data ........................................................................................................... V-4
V.3 Test Sequences ............................................................................................................. V-5
V.3.1 Creating Standard Test Sequences ...................................................................... V-5
V.3.2 Importing Sequences stored on disk .................................................................... V-5
V.3.3 Playing out a Sequence ........................................................................................ V-6
V.4 Cloning Test Patterns ................................................................................................... V-7
V.5 Deleting Test Patterns .................................................................................................. V-7
V.6 Playing-Out a Series of Test Patterns ........................................................................... V-8
W: Creating Test Patterns ....................................................................................................... W-1
W.1 Line (Colour Bar) Patterns .......................................................................................... W-1
W.1.1 Adding a New Line Pattern ................................................................................ W-1
W.1.2 Configuring the Line Pattern .............................................................................. W-2
W.1.3 Modifying an existing Line Pattern .................................................................... W-3
W.2 Zone Plates .................................................................................................................. W-3
W.2.1 Adding a New Zone Plate ................................................................................... W-3
W.2.2 Modifying an existing Zone Plate ...................................................................... W-5
W.3 Combination Test Patterns .......................................................................................... W-5
W.4 Saving Patterns on Disk .............................................................................................. W-6
W.4.1 Saving Patterns ................................................................................................... W-6
W.4.2 Importing Saved Test Patterns/Test Pattern Sets ................................................ W-7
X: Modifying the Output .......................................................................................................... X-1
X.1 Overview ...................................................................................................................... X-1
X.2 Resizing Images ........................................................................................................... X-2
X.3 Luma/Chroma Adjustments ......................................................................................... X-2
X.3.1 Selecting the Colour Range ................................................................................. X-3
X.3.2 Adjusting the Gamma .......................................................................................... X-3
X.4 Image Panning .............................................................................................................. X-3
X.4.1 Setting an Image to Pan ....................................................................................... X-4

Ultra v2.0a User Guide
Section 1: General
This section introduces the facilities offered by an Omnitek Ultra system, explains
how to set it up and describes how it is controlled.
It also gives general maintenance advice and describes the steps used to upgrade to
the latest version of the Ultra software and to add software options.
Note: Throughout this guide, steps are described in terms of mouse operations such
as clicking. Where the user interface to Ultra is displayed on a touch-screen device,
substitute the equivalent finger actions.

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Ultra v2.0a User Guide A-1
A : Equipment Guide
A.1 Introduction
The Omnitek Ultra 4K Tool Box combines in a single box a video format converter capable of
up/down/cross conversion, colour and image manipulation in all current and anticipated 4K video
formats up to 4096 x 2160/60, with waveform analysis and video generation across the same
range of video formats. In doing so, it offers a complete solution to the conversion and analysis of
Ultra HDTV and Digital Cinema signals, allowing manufacturers, designers, researchers,
broadcast stations, networks, outside broadcast units and systems integrators to build, test and
commission 4K products and systems with complete confidence.
The Omnitek Ultra is also available as a standalone 4K Analyser or 4K Converter or 4K Test
Signal Generator or as any combination of those roles.
All four versions of the Ultra offer of a variety of connection formats – multi-rate SDI, HDMI and
DisplayPort – for both video source and display. Conversion between physical and image formats
allows operation in multi-format video environments, while comprehensive SDI eye and jitter
analysis features (available as an optional extra) enable system designers to rapidly locate sources
of signal error in all signal paths up to 12G-SDI single link 4K.
A.1.1 Safety Statement
To avoid injury and prevent damage to the Ultra or to any products connected to it, use this product
only as specified and take the following safety precautions. Where the Ultra is being used
alongside other equipment, you must also ensure that you act in accordance with the advice given
in the documentation supplied with those other products.
 Only use the power cord that is both specified for this product and certified for the country
of use.
 Ensure that the product is properly grounded through the grounding conductor within the
power cord.
 Ensure that it is always possible for the user to switch off the power to the unit if need be.
 Keep all product surfaces clean and dry.
 Ensure that the unit is properly ventilated.
 Do not operate in an explosive atmosphere or in damp/wet conditions.
 Do not operate the Ultra with either the cover or any of the panels removed or otherwise
displaced from their standard positions.
 Do not operate an Ultra that has been damaged (or that you suspect has been damaged).
 When replacing the power supply fuse, only use a fuse of the specified type and rating.
 When replacing the on-board battery, only use a battery of the specified type and rating.
 Do not connect or disconnect test leads while they are connected to a voltage source.
 Do not touch exposed connections and components without first disconnecting the unit
from mains power.
Please note: The only user-serviceable parts are the fuse associated with the power supply and the
battery on the motherboard that backs up the system clock. There are no other user-serviceable
parts. In particular, the SD card on which the Ultra software is supplied is not a user-serviceable
device: swapping this card out will remove calibration data.

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A.1.2 System Features
The main features of the Ultra system are summarised in the following table.
Users upgrading to Ultra V2 from V1 should note that replacement hardware will be needed to
support the new 12G features. It will also be needed to take advantage of the facility to adjust
signal amplitude and slew rate.
Feature
Description
Control System
Web-based UI displayed on handheld device or networked PC
or ‘Local’ UI displayed on monitor attached to Ultra and
driven from mouse/keyboard plugged into Ultra
or Remote control via SNMP.
UI comprises set of windows, dedicated to Connection, Configuration,
Video Analysis ‘Viewer’ and Test Signal Generation. Range of ‘Soft’
buttons offering context-sensitive selection of actions.
Video Formats
Supported
All current and anticipated video formats up to 4096 x 2160/60,
delivered via SD/HD/3G/6G SDI, HDMI 1.4 or DisplayPort 1.2 are
supported as standard (Note: HDMI input only available for
conversion to other standards. DisplayPort output only in the current
version). Support for 12G SDI is available as an optional extra.
Note: A full list of the video standards supported by Ultra systems can
be downloaded from the Manuals etc. page of the Omnitek website.
Configuration
Input and Output formats and routing are configured via a
‘Connections’ window. System parameters are configured via
‘Configuration’ window. Analysis displays (where offered) are
configured via on-screen options and drop-down menus.
Presets
Save and re-call of up to 9 sets of System Configuration, Video
Configuration and Connection settings. Similar ability to save and
recall up to 9 ‘Viewer’ window layouts complete with details of the
individual Views displayed and Generator pattern selections (where
supported).
Format Conversion (4K Tool Box and 4K Converter):
Up/Down/cross
conversion
Offered across entire range of supported video formats.
Analysis (4K Tool Box and 4K Analyser: SDI video only):
Monitoring system
Centred around a single ‘Viewer’ window – divided into four ‘tiles’,
each of which may be used to show the result of a separate type of
analysis applied to the video under test. Individual tiles may be shown
full screen and scrolled to similarly show the next/previous tile.
General Features
Analysis of full raster/active picture area. Fully digital processing.