Error control, Start, Stop – Altera 100G Development Kit, Stratix V GX Edition User Manual

Page 29: Performance indicators

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Chapter 6: Board Test System

6–11

Using the Board Test System

August 2012

Altera Corporation

100G Development Kit, Stratix V GX Edition

User Guide

Error Control

The Error control controls display data errors detected during analysis and allow you
to insert errors:

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Detected errors

—Displays the number of data errors detected in the hardware.

■

Inserted errors

—Displays the number of errors inserted into the transmit data

stream.

■

Insert Error

—Inserts a one-word error into the transmit data stream each time you

click the button. Insert Error is only enabled during transaction performance
analysis.

■

Clear

—Resets the Detected errors and Inserted errors counters to zeros.

Start

The Start control initiates the active port transaction performance analysis.

Stop

The Stop control terminates transaction performance analysis.

1

Always click Clear before Start.

Performance Indicators

These controls display current transaction performance analysis information collected
since you last clicked Start:

■

TX

and RX performance bars—Show the percentage of maximum theoretical data

rate that the requested transactions are able to achieve.

■

Tx (MBps)

and Rx (MBps)—Show the number of bytes of data analyzed per

second.

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