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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

Thanks for the link to the patch. The Clock Control connects to the board properly now, but I'm not sure what frequencies I'm supposed to set. The user guide doesn't seem to say anything about needing to set any for the BTS to work, just that it is possible.

Right now I am able to get steady optical output on the scope the moment I configure the board, but the SMA output seems to be in intermittent bursts. So the SFP Tx works, but SMA doesn't.

In both cases when I try to click on "Start" under the Loopback tab the GUI displays the Tx rate as 0.0000 MBps, which is why I wasn't sure if it was transmitting earlier. The Rx rate is also the same, and inserting errors has no effect.

Under the PMA settings I've selected '0', '1', '2', ... '7' for both the 'All Channels' and 'Channel 0' option and in every case the result is the same as above.