2 x 25G External SFP Test
The two 25G MAC cores are instantiated in the FPGA. The SFP ports of the T1 card are
connected using a 25G optical SFP cable. The FPGA reroutes the packets received in QDMA to
the external SFP, and then routes them from the external SFP back to QDMA. The throughput
and packet loss are then analyzed.
Test Procedure
1. Set up the system as shown in the following figure.
DPDK-Pktgen Port0
MPSoC
Host
PCIe
X8
RFSoC
PCIe
X8
T1 Telco Accelerator Card
Queue1_External SFP Data Path
25G SFP Cable
SFP0
SFP1
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2. Connect the 25G SFP cable in a loopback fashion.
3. Ensure the conditions in the
Chapter 2: Card Information and Installation
met.
4. Run the
test.sh
in root, with
init
as argument, to initialize the DMA and DPDK drivers.
5. Execute the
test.sh
script, with
sfp
as argument, to launch the Pktgen application with
one port.
6. Set the packet size to 1514 with the command
set all size 1514
inside the Pktgen
application.
7. Start the traffic with the command
start all
and analyze the throughput.
8. Observe the RX and TX rate and check whether there is any loss.
9. When the test is complete, stop traffic with the command
stop all
and then quit the test.
The expected results running the SFP test are shown below.
Chapter 6: Running the Tests
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