Hi,
Transceiver architecture design is different from one FPGA family to another. So, not recommended for you to switch to other FPGA product as well.
It's preferable to stick with AV example design to debug either on your custom board or using the AV starter kit board.
For AV starter kit board debug :
- No, we don't have good way to isolate whether it is dev kit board or Bitec daughter card issue. You can check with whoever person that passed you these board to figure out whether the board is still healthy or any special board rework is done in the past or not
- Your latest NIOS II screenshot showing somehow the initialization is not completed and seems stuck.
- Have you tried to toggle the resetn pin control via pressing push button switch 4 ?
- Or reprogram NIOS II elf file again to see if it helps ?
- Other thing that you can check on the dev kit is launch the clock controller GUI software that comes with dev kit installer software to verify you are outputing the correct clock frequency to AV DP example design
For your own AV custom board debug :
- This is another debug direction also since our original debug goal is to verify your board SI issue via MSA log dump
- We wanted to bring up NIOS II to dump MSA log and you have successfully done it on AV started kit board
- Can you revisit your own board to bring up NIOS II and dump MSA log with "modified AV example design that match your board connection" ? This will be more meaningful than spent time to debug AV starter kit board
Thanks.
Regards,
dlim
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