VSC8257/VSC8258 Evaluation Board
ENT-AN1280 VPPD-04670 ENT-AN1280 User Guide Revision 1.3
Contents
1 Revision History ............................................................................................................................. 1
1.1 Revision 1.3 ........................................................................................................................................ 1
1.2 Revision 1.2 ........................................................................................................................................ 1
1.3 Revision 1.1 ........................................................................................................................................ 1
1.4 Revision 1.0 ........................................................................................................................................ 1
2 VSC8257/VSC8258 Evaluation Board ............................................................................................. 2
2.1 References .......................................................................................................................................... 2
3 Quick Start ..................................................................................................................................... 3
4 Hardware Options ......................................................................................................................... 4
4.1 Power Supply Options ........................................................................................................................ 4
4.2 Reference Clock Options .................................................................................................................... 4
5 Software ......................................................................................................................................... 5
5.1 USBXpress® Driver Installation ........................................................................................................... 5
5.2 GUI Setup ............................................................................................................................................ 5
5.3 Main Page ........................................................................................................................................... 6
5.4 Routing ............................................................................................................................................... 7
5.5 BIST ..................................................................................................................................................... 8
5.6 SFP+ .................................................................................................................................................... 9
5.7 Register List ........................................................................................................................................ 9
5.8 RMON ............................................................................................................................................... 10
5.9 KR Status ........................................................................................................................................... 10
5.10 I/O Control ...................................................................................................................................... 11
5.11 Clocking .......................................................................................................................................... 11
5.12 Command Line Interface ................................................................................................................ 12
6 Usage Examples ........................................................................................................................... 14
6.1 Packet BIST ....................................................................................................................................... 14
6.2 PRBS31 BER ...................................................................................................................................... 14
