FPGA中IBERT 核的应用(三)

QUESTION:

can i make an ibert design to test the connection between two boards?

Please see what Xilinx FAE said:

 After having generated the IBERT design for FPGA1 and FPGA2,you might open two Vivado tools in one PC, or if you prefer two Vivado tools on two PC.Then you will assign a USB number to the first FPGA connection, and another one to the second FPGA connection.

 After having programmed FPGA1 and FPGA2 with the relative bit file, Vivado1 will be able to open a hardware session on FPGA1 and Vivado2 on FPGA2.Unfortunately vivado still cannot create the correct links from one FPGA to a different one: for example Vivado (1) will only create links from FPGA 1 drivers to FPGA1 receivers.

 But this will not prevent us from making a good measurement: you just need to set the transmitters and receivers at the desired rate and PRBS.let's make an example.you want to test the link from FPGA1 where you have 6Gbps PRBS7 transmitters, to FPGA2 where you have 6Gbps PRBS7 receivers.Also you want to test the link from FPGA2 where you have 6Gbps PRBS31 transmitters, to FPGA1 where you have 6Gbps PRBS31 receivers.

 In Vivado 1 you only see FPGA1, so you need to create a fake link from TX to RX both belonging to GTX on the same FPGA1 same stuff in Vivado2: you need to create a fake link from TX to RX both on the same FPGA2.You then need to program FPGA1 transmitters with PRBS7, FPGA1 receivers with PRBS31; FPGA2 transmitters with PRBS31, FPGA1 receivers with PRBS7.

 Both links should be ok now. Please inject the error to double check if the error is correctly revealed by the receiver