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The following paragraphs provide an overview of the required items.
The FMC masterFIP mezzanine board is tested while mounted on a SPEC carrier board, as Figure 2 shows.
The SPEC carrier board provides access to the PCIe interface of the computer. The computer hosts the
FMC masterFIP PTS software which provides the automated testing environment.
Figure 2: SPEC-DAC-DDS combination
To facilitate the testing setup, the SPEC carrier is fixed on the computer’s box and a PCIe extender cable
is used.
Figure 3: SPEC connected to the PCIe extender
