SLWU087E november 2013 – june 2023
The TSW14J58 EVM is a pattern generator and data capture card with a JESD204B/C serial interface. The TSW14J58 has a single industry standard FMC+ connector that interfaces directly with TI JESD204B ADC, DAC, and AFE EVMs. (see Figure 6-1). For an ADC, the high speed serial data is captured, de-serialized, and formatted by a Xilinx®Kintex®UltraScale® + FPGA. The data is then stored into an external DDR4 memory bank, enabling the TSW14J58 to store up to 1.536G, 16-bit data samples. It also supports lane speeds from 1.6 Gbps to 24.5 Gbps, from 1 to 16 lanes. Together with the accompanying HSDC Pro GUI, it is a complete system that captures and evaluates data samples from ADC EVMs, generates and sends desired test patterns to DAC EVMs, and perform both tasks simultaneously with AFE EVMs (transciever mode).
To acquire data on a host PC, the FPGA reads the data from memory and transmits it on a high-speed 16-bit parallel interface. An onboard high-speed USB 3.0 to parallel converter bridges the FPGA interface to the host PC and GUI.
In pattern generator mode, the TSW14J58 generates the desired test patterns for DAC EVMs under test. These patterns are sent from the host PC over the USB interface to the TSW14J58. The FPGA stores the data received into the board DDR4 memory module. The data from memory is then read by the FPGA and transmitted to a DAC EVM across the FMC+ interface connector.