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8.2.1. Overview
The F-Tile Debug Toolkit is a System Console-based tool for F-Tile that provides real-time control, monitoring and debugging of the PCIe links at the Physical Layer.
The F-Tile Debug Toolkit allows you to:
- View protocol and link status of the PCIe links.
- View PLL and per-channel status of the PCIe links.
- View the channel analog settings.
- Indicate the presence of a re-timer connected between the link partners.
The following figure provides an overview of the F-Tile Debug Toolkit in the F-Tile Avalon® -ST IP for PCI Express.
When you enable the F-Tile Debug Toolkit, the intel_pcie_ftile_ast module of the generated IP includes the Debug Toolkit modules and related logic as shown in the figure above.
Drive the Debug Toolkit from a System Console. The System Console connects to the Debug Toolkit via an Native PHY Debug Master Endpoint (NPDME). Make this connection via an Intel FPGA Download Cable.
When the Debug Toolkit is enabled, a multiplexer is implemented to allow dynamic switching between the user AVMM reconfiguration interface and the System Console-based Debug Toolkit. This allows you to switch between the user logic driving the reconfiguration interface and the Debug Toolkit, as both access the same set of registers within the Hard IP.
The Debug Toolkit is launched successfully only if pending read/write transactions on the reconfiguration interface are completed (as indicated by the deassertion of the reconfig_waitrequest signal).
- The NPDME module
- PHY reconfiguration interface (xcvr_reconfig)
- Hard IP reconfiguration interface (hip_reconfig)
Provide a clock source (50 MHz - 125 MHz, 100 MHz recommended clock frequency) to drive the xcvr_reconfig_clk clock. Use the output of the Reset Release Intel FPGA IP to drive the ninit_done, which provides the reset signal to the NPDME module.
- set_location_assignment PIN_C23 -to xcvr_reconfig_clk_clk