I'm finally getting around to doing my homework from session 3. I decided to do a simple modification of adding an AXI4-Stream Switch so that I could select between video sources, in this case between the HDMI camera and the TPG (test pattern generator).
I started with the overlay from session 3 and added back the TPG and added an AXI4-Stream Switch. Seems very straightforward but I encountered a problem that I didn't expect. The TPG apparently only uses a single clock domain for the AXI control and the video generation. That meant I had clock conflicts with the frontend implementation which was using a separate video clock and AXI control clock. Luckily there is an AXI4-Stream Clock Converter that provides syncing across clock domains. So I added one of those.
Here's the diagram showing the added parts:
I have two slave inputs into the Stream Switch and one master output. The switch can handle 16 inputs and 16 outputs.
The frontend (HDMI camera) is Slave 0 (SI0) and the TPG is Slave 1 (SI1).
The register offset for the master 0 output (MI0) is 0x40. The value in the register selects which input is used.
When testing it out I found something I hadn't expected - if I didn't configure the Stream Switch first - the frontend wouldn't start. Had me baffled for a bit.
Here's the Jupyter notebook:
The color space matrix has an error that I corrected. (Should be a diagonal - fixed it for the video).
And a short video showing it operating:
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