E-Tile Transceiver PHY User Guide

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Date 7/08/2024
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10. Debugging E-Tile Transceiver Links

The E-Tile Transceiver Toolkit helps you optimize high-speed serial links in your board design by providing real-time control, monitoring, and debugging of the transceiver links running on your board.

The Transceiver Toolkit allows you to:

  • Control the transmitter or receiver channels to optimize transceiver settings and hardware features.
  • Test bit-error rate (BER) while running multiple links at the target data rate.
  • Control internal pattern generators and checkers, as well as enabling loopback modes.
  • Run auto sweep tests to identify the best physical media attachment (PMA) settings for each link.
  • View the receiver horizontal and vertical eye margin during testing.
  • Test multiple devices across multiple boards simultaneously.
Note: The E-Tile Transceiver Toolkit runs from the System Console framework.
To launch the toolkit, click Tools > System Debugging Tools > System Debugging Toolkits. Alternatively, you can run Tcl scripts from the command-line:
system-console --script=<name of script>