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14 years ago

Stratix V GX SI Dev board issue

Hi, I've recently purchased a Stratix V GX Transceiver SI Development Board and I'm having problems getting the Board Test System working. I want to use the SFP loopback feature of the BTS but ...
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14 years ago

I believe the design has loaded properly. The last 4 User LEDs are blinking. Also, when I switch to the XFP/SFP+ tab I'm able to observe optical output on a scope, but I'm unable to view an eye diagram because I don't know what port to use as a clock to trigger to.

The switches are all in their factory positions.

The loopback options in both the SMA and XFP/SFP+ tabs don't seem to do anything. Hitting Start just shows 0.0000 MBps TX and RX, as reported previously.

I believe I'm supposed to use the "Clock Control" application to set the Si570, right? However when I try to run it I get this error:

"Connecting to the target board...

java.lang.Exception: No USB Blaster detected.

Please check connections and restart the program."

It seems to be the same problem as this person's: http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31893