Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA – Triple-Rate SDI with Transceiver Toolkit Reference Design

Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA – Triple-Rate SDI with Transceiver Toolkit Reference Design

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4/28/2017

Introduction

This design example demonstrates how to dynamically perform physical medium attachment (PMA) analog settings tuning in a triple-rate Serial Digital Interface (SDI) link using the Transceiver Toolkit. This design comes with an SDI pattern generator of up to 3G video mode which allows the loopback test from SDI TX to RX for timing reference signal (TRS) and frame-lock monitoring. It is also equipped with an In-System Source and Probe instance to allow a real-time interface with the SDI link. With the help of the Transceiver Toolkit, users will be able to use the GUI to change the PMA analog settings supported by the Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA transceiver as well as perform an auto-sweep to find the optimal settings for the SDI link. The design will also show a link test between SDI TX And RX channels as well as PMA analog settings tuning in an Intel Arria 10 SoC Development Kit.

Design Details

Device Family

Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs

Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition

Quartus Version

16.0

IP Cores (35)
IP Core IP Core Category
Altera In-System Sources & Probes SimulationDebugVerification
Altera Arria 10 XCVR Reset Sequencer Other
JTAG Debug Link (internal module) ConfigurationProgramming
Avalon-ST Bytes to Packets Converter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Single Clock FIFO QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Timing Adapter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST JTAG Interface QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Packets to Bytes Converter QsysInterconnect
Avalon MM Debug Fabric QsysInterconnect
MM Interconnect QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Pipeline Stage QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Adapter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Error Adapter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-MM Slave Agent QsysInterconnect
Avalon-MM Slave Translator QsysInterconnect
Memory-Mapped Demultiplexer QsysInterconnect
Memory-Mapped Multiplexer QsysInterconnect
Memory-Mapped Router QsysInterconnect
Avalon-MM Master Agent QsysInterconnect
Memory-Mapped Traffic Limiter QsysInterconnect
Avalon-MM Master Translator QsysInterconnect
Trace ROM QsysInterconnect
Avalon Packets to Transaction Converter QsysInterconnect
Avalon ST Debug Fabric QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Demultiplexer QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Dual Clock FIFO QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Channel Adapter QsysInterconnect
Altera Management Reset Block Other
Reset Controller QsysInterconnect
Avalon-ST Multiplexer QsysInterconnect
Arria 10 Transceiver CMU PLL TransceiverPLL
Arria 10 Transceiver Native PHY TransceiverPHY
SDI II RX PHY Management TransceiverPHY
Transceiver PHY Reset Controller TransceiverPHY
SDI II TransceiverPHY

Detailed Description

Prepare the design template in the Quartus Prime software GUI (version 14.1 and later)


Note: After downloading the design example, you must prepare the design template. The file you downloaded is of the form of a <project>.par file which contains a compressed version of your design files (similar to a .qar file) and metadata describing the project. The combination of this information is what constitutes a <project>.par file. In releases 16.0 or newer, you can simply double click on the <project>.par file and Quartus will launch that project.


The second means to bring up the project template is through the New Project Wizard (File -> New Project Wizard). After entering the project name and folder on the first panel, the second panel will ask you to specify an empty project or project template. Select project template. You will see a list of Design Templates projects that you have loaded prior as well as various "Baseline Pinout Designs" that contain the pinout and settings for a variety of development kits. If you don't see your design template in the list, click on the link that states install the Design Templates circled below:



Browse to the <project>.par file you downloaded, click next, followed by Finish, and your design template will be installed and displayed in the Project Navigator pane in Quartus.


Note: When a design is stored in the Design Store as a design template, it has been previously regression tested against the stated version of Quartus software. The regression ensures the design template passes analysis/synthesis/fitting/assembly steps in the Quartus design flow.



Prepare the design template in the Quartus Prime software command-line


At the command-line, type the following command:

quartus_sh --platform_install -package <project directory>/<project>.par


Once the process completes, then type:

quartus_sh --platform -name <project>



Note:

* ACDS Version: 16.0.0 Standard


Design Details

Device Family

Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs

Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition

Quartus Version

16.0