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HBhat2
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6 years ago

Experiment with S-10 Transceiver IO Terminations

Hi, I am performing some experiment with S-10 SoC Dev kit (L-tile). I am using FMC loopback cards to check the behavior of SERDES so as to use for my final requirement. My goal is to connect a dev...
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HBhat2
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6 years ago

Hi Chee Pin,

Thank you for hinting towards slew rate. Let me check that as well.

I think this is one of the aspect which I missed. In all my previous tests, Slew rate control was set to '0'. Just now I gone through the XCVR user guide and found that Slew rate control is set o 5 for Gen2 PIPE and Gen3 PIPE.

Also, I want to know the definition of values of slew rate control ( 0 to 5). i.e. what is the meaning of slew rate control = 0, 1 etc..

With regards,

HPB

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6 years ago
Hi, Regarding the slew rate control settings, as I understand it from the user guide, 0 = slowest and 5 = fastest. There seems to be no specific specs in term of seconds in the user guide. Thank you. Best regards, Chee Pin