Re: Hardware to test (FPGA-based) prototype?

From: Nico Coesel (nico_at_puntnl.niks)
Date: 01/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:39:00 GMT

ad.rast.7@nwnotlink.NOSPAM.com (Alex Rast) wrote:

>
>We did think very long and hard about testing, and had several meetings
>where we really examined the design carefully, with a view to testability.
>But there's also the side of that your board needs to do what it needs to
>do. There's not much good designing a highly testable board that doesn't
>perform the task you're designing it for. It does seem to me that the
>available testing options for high-speed, synchronous interfaces are very
>few and far between. The option that people have been recommending, of
>putting another identical board in our system to use as a test interface,
>is one I thought about and I think, with the consensus being that this is
>the best way to go, is what I'll do. Is this, then, the typical way people
>test high-speed cards and interfaces? I'm quite surprised that there aren't
>more testing/prototype systems available for these kinds of hardware, which
>must surely be extremely common.

You could try to obtain a used DAS9200 or TLA510 system with a pattern
generator board (these generate patterns based on a 50MHz clock).
These systems are for sale on Ebay every now and then. 

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