Re: Standard Test Waveforms
Larry,
A few of us have been discussing something like this
data file you've described. We did something similar
during the 1GE project. We were kind of waiting until
we had a better description of bit ordering through
the blocks and I think this draft of the standard
provides a good basis for this.
All,
Anyone who'd like to contribute please contact me
privately. I'll be looking for input regarding the
interfaces we want to cover, the format of the data
files and volunteers for providing data files and
verifying other's data files.
To all you gung-ho engineers out there, make sure
you run this past your manager before you start
contributing. Please make sure they don't consider
any work you do as part of your company's IP as
the goal of this work is to make it available to
the entire P802.3ae community.
Thanks,
Ben Brown
Logic Track Chair, P802.3ae
Larry Rennie wrote:
>
> Goeff, thanks for your input. I was thinking more in line of a data file
> that would represent a typical 64b66b/WIS encoded frame. Such a "standard"
> frame would go a long way to insure that implementers have interpreted the
> spec correctly, at least with respect to the WAN PHY encoding process, from
> data in at the XGMII interface to encoded data out of the WIS Frame
> Generator.
>
> Regards,
>
> Larry
>
> Geoff Thompson wrote:
>
> > Larry-
> >
> > Portions of the existing 802.3 Standard that are intended to be used in
> > machine readable form as opposed to human readable are already handled by
> > posting on the 802.3 website.
> >
> > To date this includes:
> > 802.3ad SNMP MIB
> > 802.3ab Waveform
> > 802.3ab MathCad code
> > I don't see any new issues here.
> >
> > Geoff
> >
> > At 12:03 PM 12/6/00 -0800, Larry Rennie wrote:
> > >On other standard efforts I have worked on (specifically, fed-std-1045)
> > >a CD containing typical waveforms for use by all developers was made
> > >available by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). For
> > >IEEE 802.3ae, these waveforms would correspond to, for example, a bit
> > >pattern representing a typical WIS frame output. Is this something that
> > >the IEEE would consider doing? The CD provided by NIST was a great help
> > >in debugging design implementations and in ensuring interoperability
> > >between designs from different manufacturers.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >
> > >Larry R.
> > >
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