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XCVR Channel Loopback Test Run Procedure :
1.
Launch Transceiver toolkit
2.
In Quartus software, goto Tools -> System Debugging Tools -> Transceiver Toolkit
3.
Click “Load Design” and
select the programmed SOF file.
4.
Toolkit should initialize one XCVR duplex channel as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6. XCVR channel initialization in toolkit
5.
Click the XCVR channel under
“
Link Alias
”
then click on “Control Transceiver Link”
6.
Procedure to test Internal Serial Loopback
a.
Set Loopback Mode to
“
Serial loopback
”
as shown in Figure 7
Figure 7. Test run with Internal Serial Loopback Mode
