General Xilinx information

IBERT for 7 Series GTX Transceivers

https://www.xilinx.com/products/intellectual-property/ibert_7series_gtx.html

Eye Scan Theory

page 215 of https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug476_7Series_Transceivers.pdf

IBERT for UltraScale/UltraScale+ GTH Transceivers

https://www.xilinx.com/products/intellectual-property/ibert_ultrascale_gth.html

Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit

https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/ek-k7-kc705-g.html

many useful information and example from the resources center:

the KC705 GTX IBERT  Tutorials: (Needs a Xilinx account to download the slides, firmware, and source code)

KC705 schematics: kc705_Schematic_xtp132_rev1_1.pdf

KC705 IBERT tutorial: xtp200-kc705-ibert-c-2014-3.pdf

firmware and source code: rdf0190-kc705-ibert-c-2014-3.zip

White paper for the Xilinx FPGA IBERT and transceivers

wp428-7Series-Serial-Link-Signal-Analysis.pdf

Compiling the IBERT FPGA for KC705

Xilinx official tutorial for IBERT firmware

link

Instruction

you can use the ATLAS team rddev111 server. Please contact Su Dong and Matthias Wittgen for a user account. 

1. ssh login to the rddev111 server
2. source the Xilinx vivado environment: $ source /data/Xilinx/Vivado/2021.2/settings64.sh
3. add a license for vivado: $ export LM_LICENSE_FILE=2100@rdlic1:2100@rdlic2:2100@rdlic3
4. start the vivado software: $ vivado
5. create a project:
6. project name:
7. project type:
8. choose hardware platform:

9. finish:

10. click "IP catalog", and search "IBERT"
11. double click "IBERT 7 Series GTX" to customize this IP: