XAUI v12.3 Product Guide
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PG053 April 6, 2016
Appendix C:
Debugging Designs
X-Ref Target - Figure C-2
Figure C
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2:
Flow Diagram for Debugging Problems with Data Reception or Transmission
Is RX Link Status = ‘0’ (Link
down) See Link Bring Up
Section for more details.
Is the Data at the XAUI input valid?
Check the MAC layer.
Is Core in a local or
remote fault condition?
See see section on what can
cause a local or
remote fault below.
Check that the core
is correctly configured
using either the configuration
vector or the
MDIO interface.
Monitor XGMII data
and data on Rocket IO
interface. Are errors being
inserted by the
XAUI core receiver?
See below section on What can
cause the XAUI core to insert
errors.
A received remote fault indicates
that the link partner is down. Check the
status of the link partner.
See the General Checks
section above.
See the Problems with High Bit Error
Rate section below.
See below section on
problems with MDIO.
Is the link status OK in loopback?
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Remote Fault
Local Fault
Yes
No
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