New TI high-speed ADCs and DACs now have high-speed serial data that meets the JESD204C_B standard. These devices are generally available on an EVM that connects directly to the TSW14J59EVM. The common connector between the EVMs and the TSW14J59EVM is a Samtec high-speed, high-density FMC+ connector (ASP-184329-01) designed for high-speed differential pairs up to 32.5 Gbps. A common pinout for the connector across a family of EVMs has been established. At present, the interface between the EVMs and the TSW14J59EVM has defined connections for 32 high-speed differential data pairs (16 RX and 16 TX), I2C interface, 20 single-ended spare signals, three single-ended SYNC outputs, two single-ended trigger inputs, a differential SYNC and SYSREF, and four device clock pairs (FPGA reference clock). The board has 10 spare USB3.0 interface signals, two FPGA reference clock SMAs, three reset switches, 8 general status LEDs and 13 power status LEDs.

The data format for JESD204C_B ADCs and DACs is a serialized format, where individual bits of the data are presented on the serial pairs commonly referred to as lanes. Devices designed around the JESD204C_B specification can have up to 16 lanes for transmitting or receiving data. The firmware in the FPGA on the TSW14J59 is designed to accommodate any of TI's ADC or DAC operating with any number of lanes from 1 to 16.

The HSDC Pro GUI loads the FPGA with the appropriate firmware and a specific JESD204C_B configuration, based on the ADC device selected in the device drop down window. Each ADC device that appears in this window has an initialization file (.csv) associated. This file contains JESD information, such as number of lanes, number of converters, octets per frame, and other parameters. This information is loaded into the FPGA registers after the user clicks on the capture button. After the parameters are loaded, synchronization is established between the data converter and FPGA and valid data is then captured into the on-board memory. See the High-Speed Data Capture Pro GUI Software User's Guide under the Technical Documents section for more information. Several .ini files are available to allow the user to load predetermined ADC JESD204C_B interfaces.

The TSW14J59 device can capture up to 1.536G 16-bit samples at a maximum line rate of 32Gbps that are stored inside the on-board DDR4 memory. The data size the user sets in the HSDC Pro GUI must be entered as multiples of 480. To acquire data on a host PC, the FPGA reads the data from memory and transmits parallel data to the on-board high-speed parallel-to-USB3.0 converter.