Today, more and more of my customers starting new designs are using some form of gigabit transceiver links. Some are using them for board-to-board data interfaces, some for camera interfaces, some for storage device interfaces and some for PC interfaces via PCIe. The list goes on and on. An oddity here is that most of these engineers have little or no high-speed serial link experience and must come up to speed as quickly as possible on this technology. This, however, is not an easy technology to master. Fortunately Xilinx has created the Chipscope IBERT tester along with highly flexible gigabit transceivers to help minimize design time and improve debugging capability.
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Emulator or Debugger - that is the question
