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11 years ago

Is there an IP I can use to do Bit Error Ratio Tester for Gigbit transceivers?

I have a design which will use gigbit transceivers, I wonder is ther an IP I can use to do Bit Error Ratio Tester to verify whether the hardware is in good shape or not? Thanks in advance.
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11 years ago

Use the Transceiver Toolkit ... its part of the Quartus GUI

http://www.altera.com/products/software/quartus-ii/transceiver/swf-transceiver-toolkit.html

http://www.altera.com/support/examples/on-chip-debugging/on-chip-debugging.html

Basically the examples create a Qsys system with a PHY, a PRBS pattern generator and a checker. You can then the Quartus Transceiver Toolkit GUI to control the Qsys system and generate bath-tub plots, etc.

Cheers,

Dave