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EVM-91L30
SONET STS-12/STS-3 or SDH STM-4/STM-1
XRT91L30 Optical Evaluation Board User Manual
Feb 09, 2006
Figure 1.0 XRT91L30 Block Diagram.............................................................................. 4
1.0 OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................4
2.0 EVALUATION BOARD ARCHITECTURE..................................................................5
Figure 2.0 XRT91L30 Optical Evaluation Board revision 0 .......................................... 5
2.1 FPGA FUNCTIONALITY AND CONTROL ....................................................................... 6
2.2 XRT91L30 CLOCK REFERENCE .............................................................................. 6
2.3 FPGA FEATURES ..................................................................................................... 6
2.4 EVALUATION BOARD LIMITATIONS............................................................................. 7
3.0 USB DRIVER AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE INSTALLATION ...........................8
3.1 INSTALLING THE EXAR USB DRIVER ......................................................................... 8
Figure 3.1 Add New Hardware......................................................................................... 8
Figure 3.2 Select Display Available Drivers and then Next.......................................... 9
Figure 3.3 Select "Other detected devices" and then Next.......................................... 9
Figure 3.4 Select Have Disk........................................................................................... 10
Figure 3.5 Find the location of the drivers located on the CD ................................... 10
Figure 3.6 Install From Disk........................................................................................... 10
Figure 3.7 Driver Select.................................................................................................. 11
Figure 3.8 Install Driver.................................................................................................. 11
Figure 3.9 Installation Successful ................................................................................ 12
3.2 INSTALLING THE XRT91L30 EVALUATION GUI........................................................ 12
Figure 3.10 Start Test ..................................................................................................... 12
4.0 XRT91L30 EVALUATION SOFTWARE ...............................................................13
4.1 STARTING THE EVALUATION SOFTWARE.................................................................. 13
Figure 4.1 Start Test ....................................................................................................... 13
4.2 USING THE EVALUATION SOFTWARE ....................................................................... 14
Figure 4.2 Main GUI Window ......................................................................................... 14
4.3
XRT91L30 GUI CONTROL DISPLAY ASSOCIATION ............................................. 15
Table 1.0 XRT91L30 GUI Display Cross Reference..................................................... 15
Table 1.1 FPGA Functions GUI Display Cross Reference.......................................... 16
5.0 SETTING UP THE XRT91L30 EVALUATION BOARD FOR SONET/SDH TESTING ...17
Figure 5.1 Transceiver Test Setup................................................................................ 17
6.0 EXAMPLE APPLICATIONS .................................................................................18
6.1 LOOPBACK OPERATIONS ........................................................................................ 18
6.1.1 Serial Remote Loopback........................................................................................... 18
Figure 6.1 XRT91L30 Serial Remote Loopback ........................................................... 18
Figure 6.2 Main GUI Window ......................................................................................... 19
Figure 6.3 Select Data Rate ........................................................................................... 19
Figure 6.4 Select Looptiming ........................................................................................ 20
Figure 6.5 Enable Serial Remote Loopback................................................................. 20
Figure 6.6 Disable Serial Remote Loopback................................................................ 21
6.1.2 PRBS Pattern Synch Test using Analog Local Loopback..................................... 22
Figure 6.7 XRT91L30 Analog Local Loopback ............................................................ 22
Figure 6.8 Select Data Rate ........................................................................................... 22
Figure 6.9 Select Transmit Parallel Clock Output Direction ...................................... 23
Figure 6.10 Select Local Timing.................................................................................... 23
Figure 6.11 Enable Analog Local Loopback ................................................................ 24
Figure 6.12 Enable Transmit Pattern On ...................................................................... 24
Figure 6.13 Select 231 – 1 PRBS Pattern Generator and Analyzer ............................. 25
Figure 6.14 Start Polling ................................................................................................ 25
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