Chapter 6: Board Test System
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The Power Monitor
July 2012
Altera Corporation
Stratix V GX FPGA Development Kit
User Guide
■
HF2
—Selects second lowest frequency divide-by-22 data pattern
■
LF—
Selects lowest frequency divide by 33 data pattern
Error Control
The
Error control
control displays data errors detected during analysis and allows
you to insert errors:
■
Detected errors
—Displays the number of data errors detected in the hardware.
■
Inserted errors
—Displays the number of errors inserted into the transmit data
stream.
■
Insert Error
—Inserts a one-word error into the transmit data stream each time you
click the button.
Insert Error
is only enabled during transaction performance
analysis.
■
Clear
—Resets the
Detected errors
and
Inserted errors
counters to zeros.
Start
The
Start
control initiates SMA transaction performance analysis.
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Always click
Clear
before
Start
.
Stop
The
Stop
control terminates transaction performance analysis.
Performance Indicators
These controls display current transaction performance analysis information collected
since you last clicked
Start
:
■
TX
and
RX
performance bars—Show the percentage of maximum theoretical data
rate that the requested transactions are able to achieve.
■
Tx (MBps)
and
Rx (MBps)
—Show the number of bytes of data analyzed per
second.
The Power Monitor
The Power Monitor measures and reports current power and temperature
information for the board. To start the application, click
Power Monitor
in the Board
Test System application.
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You can also run the Power Monitor as a stand-alone application.
PowerMonitor.exe
resides in the
<install dir>
\kits\stratixVGX_5sgxea7kf40_fpga\examples\board_test_system
directory. On Windows, click
Start
>
All Programs
>
Altera
>
Stratix V GX FPGA
Development Kit
<
version
> >
Power Monitor
to start the application.
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