Reply To: SNES De-blur

[paulb_nl]

I have been working on implementing this on the OSSC. This is the function I am using now:

function [7:0] apply_reverse_lpf;
    input enable;
    input [7:0] data;
    input [7:0] data_prev;
    input [8:0] lpfv;
    int a, b, c;

    begin
        a = data_prev << 7;
        b = (data_prev - data) * lpfv;
        c = (a < b ? 0 : (a - b));

        if (enable)
            apply_reverse_lpf = (c > (255 << 7)) ? 8'hFF : (c >> 7);
        else
            apply_reverse_lpf = data;
    end
endfunction

The function compares current to previous pixel and of course for the 256×240 optimized mode the source pixels are repeated so it should only store the previous pixel at the last repeated pixel.

I check when linebuf_hoffset changes and it seems to change at the third repeat. So I use lpf_last_hoffset to store the previous pixel at the following cycle.

I added this after calling the reverse_lpf function:

if ((V_MULTMODE == V_MULTMODE_3X) & (H_MULTMODE == H_MULTMODE_OPTIMIZED))
    begin
        if (lpf_last_hoffset == 1'b1)
            begin
                R_prev <= R_act;
                G_prev <= G_act;
                B_prev <= B_act;
            end

        if (linebuf_hoffset_prev != linebuf_hoffset)
                lpf_last_hoffset <= 1'b1;
        else
                lpf_last_hoffset <= 1'b0;

        linebuf_hoffset_prev <= linebuf_hoffset;
    end
else
    begin
        R_prev <= R_act;
        G_prev <= G_act;
        B_prev <= B_act;
    end

Any improvement suggestions are welcome. There is probably a better way to check the input pixel offset.

Here is a picture of it in action in lineX3 optimized: