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pryngshu
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9 days ago

Unable to Generate Valid PAM4 Eye Diagram and BER Measurements on Stratix 10 SI E-Tile Native PHY

Hardware Intel Stratix 10 Development Kit E-Tile Native PHY IP Single SMA TX and RX channel SMA-to-SMA cable (50 Ω) Software Quartus Prime Pro 18.1 Intel Transceiver Toolkit Configuration...
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pryngshu
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6 days ago

As suggested, we installed Quartus Prime Pro 24.1. However, we could not find the Transceiver Toolkit (TTK) in the System Console.

Could you please recommend the exact Quartus Prime Pro version that includes both the Transceiver Toolkit and the board example designs for PAM4 operation over the SMA connectors?

Previously, we used Quartus Prime Pro 18.1, which included board example files for PAM4 programming through the SMA interface. However, we were unable to successfully complete the Eye Viewer test, as described in our earlier correspondence.

It's Urgent, kindly respond.

Kind regards.

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Ash_R_Altera
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3 days ago

Hi,

I suspect that probably the design is not properly configured to enable the TTK. Please refer the section 10.3 and make sure that the E-tile IP has correct settings enabled.

https://docs.altera.com/r/docs/683723/current/e-tile-transceiver-phy-user-guide/modifying-the-design-to-enable-e-tile-transceiver-debug

 

The latest version of the Quartus is 26.1. Recommend you to choose the latest one.

 

For the design example, unfortunately there is none for PAM4 native PHY IP.

 

Regards