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13 years ago

10G Ethernet and 10G Base-R PHY Hardware Demonstration Design

Hi all, I am trying to test board-to-board communication using a complete 10G Ethernet design that includes an Altera 10 GbE MAC + an Altera 10GBASE-R IP cores. My devices are Stratix IV GT and...
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13 years ago

I modified the scripts and made it work with local loopback (using SMA cables in one board). I then created a script to work with board-to-board mode and only the transmitter works that gives statistics in System Console. But the receiver is not working. I cannot write to register and the error msg is as below:

error: This transaction did not complete in 60 seconds. System Console is giving up.

while executing

"master_write_32 {/devices/EP4S(100G2|40G2)@1#USB-0/(link)/JTAG/(110:132 v1# 0)/phy_0/master} {0x1000004} {0x00000001}"

while executing

"master_write_32 $port_id $address $wdata"

If you have any idea about the reason for this?

Thanks and wait for your suggestions.