HardwareTestCharacterization

Very rough, feel free to edit/tidy up! Discuss testing ideas in Issue #117. Create new Issues as needed and apply Label area:testing.

Post results of tests here when completed (eventually, we'll move this into a documentation page)

0.1 (proto round 1)

Thermal

• Check temperature of SFP in PCB_Sayma_AMC and PCB_Metlino operating at 10 Gbps. Discussed in #158.

Analog

• Phase noise of the various clocks/parts of the clock distribution network
  • related to #118
• DAC + ADC SFDR & phase noise
• Temp dependence of output power/phase
• Return loss of all RF (inc. clock) inputs/outputs
• Do unterminated clock outputs from eRTM15 cause problems (see #78)?
• Crosstalk (intra DAC, inter DAC, intra ADC, inter ADC, ADC-DAC)
• DAC/ADC offset and its stability

Digital bootstrap/testing

• AMC

  • JTAG
  • Flash
  • MiSoC, UART
  • DDR3
  • Ethernet
  • DRTIO Clock tree
  • Transcievers
  • DRTIO
  • (I2C)
  • (FMC)
  • (other DRTIO up/downlinks SFP/SATA)

• RTM

  • AUX FPGA config, clock, xcvr, TTL/SPI pass-through/DRTIO
  • SPI tree
  • DAC clock tree
  • DAC JESD
  • Analog mezzanine configuration

• RTM backplane

  • baikal test: RFB clock reflection due to unoccupied RTM slots #118