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DS280DF810: Signal can not communicating

Part Number: DS280DF810

Hi team.

this is brandon. we are meeting a question related to Signal communication.

Now when the DS280DF810 chip we are using is used as a BERT, we found a situation where the signal is not communicating.

In the case of the following figure, TX_7 is used as the transmitter and RX_1 is used as the receiver. There is a normal eye diagram of the sender, but the receiver cannot communicate. In this case, the communication is not started when the error code is detected, but the communication starts after a few seconds, but the error communication is indeed large. Then use TX_0 as the transmitter, and the communication is normal again. Read the rate configuration of the chip, PRBS is normal. This situation happens occasionally. I would like to ask, besides PRBS and rate, what other registers may cause communication failure?

BR

Brandon

  • Hi,

    I'm assuming you have a short connection from TX7 to RX1. If the retimer input channel insertion loss is too low (less than 3dB) some signal over-equalization may occur. You may try forcing CTLE = 0x00 (lowest boost value) on channel 1 to see if performance improves. See channel register operation below.

    Table. Set CTLE Boost Value

    STEP

    SHARED/ CHANNEL REGISTER SET

    OPERATION

    REGISTER ADDRESS [HEX]

    REGISTER VALUE [HEX]

    WRITE MASK [HEX]

    COMMENT

    1

    Channel

    Write

    2D

    08

    08

    Enable CTLE boost override

    2

    Channel

    Write

    03

    00

    FF

    Set CTLE boost to 0x00. Different input channel loss will require different CTLE settings.

    Regards,

    Rodrigo Natal