
Evaluation Kit User Manual
EV9000
2001 Consumer Microcircuits Limited
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UM9000/2
Test 6: BER & DQ test 'B' to 'A' using formatted messages
Additional Information:
Each message consists of about 50 blocks. There are gaps between the messages and both the
transmit and receive devices are reset at the start of each message.
In MDC mode a transmitted message comprises 40 bits of preamble followed by Frame Sync, a
Header Block, many Intermediate Blocks and a Last Block.
In RD-LAP mode a transmitted message comprises 24 symbols of preamble followed by Frame
Sync, a Station ID Block, a Header Block, many Intermediate Blocks and a Last Block.
Each data block (Station ID, Header, Intermediate or Last) is generated from random data.
The following CMX969 Register bit settings entered in the ES9690xx.EXE software’s window for
chip B are used during the test:
Command Reg:
RXEYE (receive)
Control Reg:
CKDIV, MDC, HOLD
ALTCRC, ALTFILT, FSTOL (these apply only to RD-LAP mode)
Mode Reg:
INVSYM,
SSIEN (Rx only)
The transmit S symbol value (Tx only)
AFSD is used only to detect the Frame Sync pattern at the start of each message.
The following results are reported at the end of the test:
Number of messages sent.
Number of messages detected by the receiver and the
number of AFSD detects.
Number of inverted Frame Sync patterns detected (MDC only).
Total number of data bits received (after error correction).
Average BER of ‘corrected’ data.
Average receive Data Quality Register reading.
Number of received data blocks and the
number in which the ‘corrected’ data was wrong.
Number of received CRCs and the number flagged as incorrect.
Number of times the receive S symbol was read and the
number of times that it was incorrect.
Test 7: Concatenated message test
This test is different from the main Test 7, which is used for evaluation of CMX909B, FX919B and FX929B
devices. Test 7 for CMX969 devices continually transmits concatenated short messages (without symbol
sync) from device B:
RDLAP:
Frame Sync + Station ID block + Header block
MDC:
Frame Sync + 1st Header block + 2nd Header block
The receiving device (A) continually tries to receive messages formatted as the Tx messages. AFSD is
set to run all of the time.
Whenever the receiving device’s AFSDET flag is set this indicates that a new Frame Sync has been
detected. The Rx software then stops whatever it was doing (if anything) and issues a RSID (RDLAP) or
RHB (MDC) task. When that task finishes the crc is checked and if it is correct a RHB task is issued.