SLWU079D March 2012 – April 2016
The TSW1406 Pattern Generator Card is a low cost pattern generator card with reduced memory capacity for providing test patterns to TI High Speed DAC EVMs. The TSW1406 has a High Speed Samtec connector that directly connects to the LVDS input data bus of DAC EVM. The TSW1406 does not have connections for CMOS DAC EVMs. The TSW1406 uses the same software GUI as the TSW1400.
The TSW1406 does not have an EEPROM resident on the board to hold an FPGA bit file, but rather will get the bit file downloaded from the software GUI running on a PC at runtime. In this manner the TSW1406 will not need to be reprogrammed when new DAC EVMs or additional capture features become available. The planned FPGA firmware upgrades consists of new files to be downloaded to the software GUI. The TSW1406 does have a footprint for a firmware EEPROM to be installed, if desired.