Hello!
I'm looking for some help how to use the GTX transceivers on PicoZed 7030 board. I'm using the FMC Carrier Card V2 platform and my goal is to send data to one GTX transceiver channel and receive it with another. Later this communication should happen between multiple PicoZed boards.
I currently have a setup where I connect the SMA TX pair to SFP+ module RX pair via SFP+ to SMA adapter. After watching your 4 tutorial videos about how to use IBERT core to validate links I managed to verify that the link is working correctly. The Link was automatically detected by Vivado and it shows the link
MGT_X0Y1/TX (SMA) -> MGT_X0Y2/RX (SFP+)
Status as 6.250 Gbps as expected and no errors.
Now I would want to move to the next step: use the GTX transceivers from a custom logic so that I can send my custom data to one transceiver and receive it to another but I'm really confused how to achieve this. First things I find info about are the "7 Series FPGAs Transceivers Wizard" and "Aurora 64B66B" cores. But when I used the IBERT core I did not need the Transceivers Wizard setup. That makes me want to think that it's not needed.
What I'm looking for is basic steps what is needed to send data from my custom logic to GTX transceiver and receive it back. Do I need transceivers wizard? Do I need to edit .xdc constraints manually? Can I use Aurora example design?
I'm fairly familiar with Vivado and SDK but I have not worked with .xdc constraints. I'm familiar with building a custom AXI4 peripheral.
Best regards
Jan