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ALTERA Embedded Gigabit Transceiver Measurement for PCI Express Protocol  

Kwon, Won-Ok (Dept. Internet Server, ETRI)
Park, Kyoung (Dept. Internet Server, ETRI)
Kwon, Hyuk-Je (Dept. R&D beyondmicro)
Yoon, Suk-Han (Dept. Computer and Information Science, Korea University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI / v.41, no.4, 2004 , pp. 41-49 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a design and measurement method for FPGA embedded gigabit-transceiver is presented. Altera's Stratix GX device which is general purpose transceiver called GXB was used for implementing PCI Express transceiver. PCI Express is the generation high performance serial I/O bus used to interconnect peripheral devices. After GXB was set follow by PCI Express specifications, the design has been verified by timing simulation and implemented as hardware. We tested it as follow. First GXB internal digital and analog block test second GXB transmitter signal integrity test called Eye mask test, third GXB high-speed serial I/O buffer and on-chip termination test and the last GXB protocol test. This paper shows all the design and measurement procedure about FPGA embedded gigabit-transceiver.
Keywords
Embedded Transceiver; High speed serial protocol; Measurement; FPGA; Stratix GX; PCI Express;
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