SigTest 6.1.06 support

[andrefleitao]

Hello. I have questions regarding the SigTest 6.1.06 for PCIe6 spec.

I saw this post where some Intel employee said  "SigTest is a design-in tool. Maybe you can get help from customer service below.
https://designintools.intel.com/customer-service

"

However when contacting Design-in Tools team they said: "Please contact support at the SW source, DesignInTools cannot assist you". In the suggested "Development Software Support Options" category it says i should have "Priority Support" enabled to get support here which i seem to have using my company email. There, they said "to assist you on this, kind go to this link Intel Community - FPGAs and Programmable Solutions and you may proceed to post your question on the appropriate subforum topic" which i am doing here.

Does someone in the community know how to answer the questions below?

1. Is SNDR processing working on SigTest 6.1.06?

I get “Unsupported test flow” when running with your test example in CLI Docs (btw you had SNDR_RLM argument after 6_0 but it seems that is the folder inside the templates which is SNDR_Matlab and not SNDR_RLM). The SNDR.dat inside seems to be empty or just has some message.

I tried with several waveforms and patterns but the issue seems to be that SNDR is not working in this tool. 

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1. Jitter meas – do we need a specific number of samples/periods for this to be processed? 

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1. Can Intel share the source files for Sigtest? Python maybe.

Thanks,

André Leitão

Test & Validation Engineering, Staff Engineer
Synopsys

[BoonBengT_Intel]

Hi @andrefleitao,

Thank you for posting in Intel community forum, hope all is well and apologies for the delayed in response.

Just to clarify further, can you let us know what are the hardware/platform/tools that you are working on?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Best Wishes

BB

[andrefleitao]

Hi BoonBengT

We are using Keysight equipment to send the signal (BERT) and to capture (Scope). 

[BoonBengT_Intel]

Hi @andrefleitao,

Noted with thanks on the tools involved, as mention the SigTest tool used are related to validating PCie 6 spec.

The mention spec with the support Intel product as we know is Intel Xeon, is that the hardware product that you are working with?

Reason for the question is for us to identify the correct expert to advise on your doubts.

The community link that you mention previously are for FPGA product related technical question.

Hope that clarify.

Best Wishes

BB

[andrefleitao]

Hi. In the meantime I got answer from the Customer support :
Greetings from Intel Customer Support.



Thank you for your patience, As per your previous queries, below are the answer's:

The CLI documentation was released early for Test and Measurement Vendors (such as Keyisight, Tektronix, LeCroy, Anrtisu, etc.) to enable them to get their automation flows working correctly. It is not as of yet supported and should be enabled in our next release or two. The User can however use SNDR_Matlab test in GUI mode to complete their measurements.
Yes, 3M UI is required to have the test run successfully.
No, unfortunately we can not share the Sigtest source files.

[BoonBengT_Intel]

Hi @andrefleitao,

Noted with thanks on the additional information.

However just to confirm the hardware product involved, any inputs on that.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Best Wishes

BB

[BoonBengT_Intel]

Hi @andrefleitao,

Good day, just following up on the previous clarification.

By any chances did you managed to look into it?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Best Wishes

BB

[andrefleitao]

Hi. Not yet. In the case i was given some contact. I am dealing with the subject offline now. =/ If we find the issue i will paste here.

[BoonBengT_Intel]

Hi @andrefleitao,

Noted on the issues and good to know that you managed to get a contact to work with you offline on this.

Sure if there is further issues on FPGA related product, please feel free to post the challenges here and we would be more than happy to get back to you.

With no further clarification on this thread, it will be transitioned to community support for further help on doubts in this thread.

Best Wishes

BB

[andrefleitao]

I got answered this week. The new SigTest 6.1.09 addresses theses issues. At least SNDR/RLM is working now.