Apollo Carrier Board
User Manual
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September 22, 2020
Figure 6-3
Block diagram of 40GbE demo
Project Information
The Project information is shown in the table below.
Item
Description
Project Location
CDROM/Demonstrations/alt_e40
Quartus Project
CDROM/Demonstrations/alt_e40/hardware_test_design
FPGA Bit Stream
CDROM/Demonstrations/alt_e40/hardware_test_design/output_files/eth_ex_40g.sof
Demo Batch
CDROM/Demonstrations/alt_e40/demo_batch
Test Scrip File
CDROM/Demonstrations/alt_e40/hardware_test_design/hwtest/main.tcl
Quartus Version
Quartus Prime 19.4 Pro Edition
Demonstration Setup
Here is the procedure to setup the demonstration. A QSFP28 loopback fixture is required for this
demonstration. If you don’t have a QSFP28 loopback fixture, please use run_test instead of
run_external_test in the following demonstration procedure. The run_test is used to enable
transceiver serial loopback for internal loopback.
1.
Make sure your Host PC has installed the Quartus 19.4 Pro edition.
2.
Insert a QSFP28 loopback fixture into the QSFP28-A port on the Apollo carrier board, as