TLK10034: TLK10034 :10GBaseKR Autonegotiation and Link training

ASHITHA A V

Intellectual 325 points

Part Number: TLK10034
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: DS100MB203

3124.Data_path.pdf

Hi,

Flow of data is as shown in the attached document.

DS100 and tlk10034 are in 10GBaseKR mode.

The DS100 settings for channel are as follows:

0x0f->0x0

0x17->0xa8

0x18->0x0.

With these values the 10GBaseKR link is up.But the register CHANNEL_STATUS_1 (0x1E.0x000F) of TLK10034 read as 0X5D03 and 0x5C03 . The value is not stable and oscillating between the two.The bit HS_DECODE_INVALID is getting set frequently. What causes this bit (HS_DECODE_INVALID) to get set?

Can changing any register of TLK prevent this ? Is there any threshold setting which can be altered to increase the margin so that decode invalid will not be set frequently?

Thanks,

Ashitha

over 5 years ago

0 Yaser Ibrahim over 5 years ago

TI__Genius 10250 points

Hi Ashitha,

Can you please check HS_ERROR_COUNTER register (0x1e.0x10)? Also, are you sure the HS_LOS (bit 13 of 0x1E.0x000F) doesn't get set?
HS_DECODE_INVALID indicates that the decoder received an invalid code word, or a 8b/10b disparity error. There is no threshold setting or margin to increase to prevent this error from being set.

Regards,
Yaser

0 ASHITHA A V over 5 years ago in reply to Yaser Ibrahim

Intellectual 325 points

Hi Yaser,

The HS_ERROR_COUNTER keeps incrementing till we clear it.
HS_LOS bit is not getting set.

We observed the following as well.
When we tried to change the settings as mentioned in the document "SLLA351– December2014" [section 5, page number 10] using register 00x01.0x9001, The ENTRACK bit was not changing.How to enable this functionality?

Thanks,
Ashitha

0 Yaser Ibrahim over 5 years ago in reply to ASHITHA A V

TI__Genius 10250 points

Hello,

Have you tried to write 1 to bit 15 of HS_SERDES_CONTROL_3 (0x1e.0x0004) to force track mode?

Regards,
Yaser

0 ASHITHA A V over 5 years ago in reply to Yaser Ibrahim

Intellectual 325 points

Hi Yaser,

We have wrote 1 to HS_SERDES_CONTROL_3 register and we are able to set the ENTRACK bit. With the following settings in TLK10034 , sometimes the link was up and stable.Also the HS_ERROR_COUNTER read '0'. But sometimes the link is unstable and the error counter overflows.
We have set the following registers in TLK10034:
0X1E.0X004->0X9400
0X1E.0X8020->0X40;

Since the link is becoming stable we think that there may not be signal integrity issues.
But why is the link not stable with the same settings that worked earlier ?
Once the link is stable, it remains in that state till it is powered down.

Thanks,
Ashitha

0 Yaser Ibrahim over 5 years ago in reply to ASHITHA A V

TI__Genius 10250 points

Hi Ashitha,

When you say the link is sometimes stable and sometimes it is not, do you mean after power up or reset, sometimes it works and stays stable, and sometimes it is unstable from the beginning? If so, it appears the link training fails. Can you try to disable it and see if the behavior becomes consistent?

Regards,
Yaser

0 ASHITHA A V over 5 years ago in reply to Yaser Ibrahim

Intellectual 325 points

Hi Yaser,

We observed after power up, from the beginning the link is either stable or unstable.
We have put the device in manual mode by disabling auto-negotiation and link training , then the link is up but the HS_Counter overflows .

Thanks,
Ashitha

0 ASHITHA A V over 5 years ago in reply to ASHITHA A V

Intellectual 325 points

Hi,
We have made the following changes in DS100MB203 and TLK10034 registers:
DS100MB203:
Instead of setting the DEM as '0' dB, we have changed to '-1.5dB', that is 0x26 register->0x01.
TLK10034:
0x1E.0x0004-->0xE400 and 0x1E.0x0004-->0xD400 for port 1 and 0 respectively.
With this setting both links are up and stable.
Thanks,
Ashitha

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