METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGGREGATION AND STREAMING OF MONITORING DATA

A video device having data lanes and a method of operating the video device includes generating performance monitoring and/or debug data in response to the operation of the video device. The generated data is sampled from component of the video device operating in various clocking domain. The data sampled from the components is combined into a unified stream which is independent of the various clocking domain. The unified stream is transmitted across one more data lanes of a video link along with corresponding audio and/or video data in real time.