| Channel | The connecting medium between Transceiver Tx to Transceiver Rx is
called channel. A channel may contains PCB traces, connectors,
cables and backplanes. |
| Insertion Loss | The Insertion loss is the loss of signal power resulting from the
insertion due to a transmission line (Channel) and is usually
expressed in decibels. The insertion loss is always expressed with
respect to frequency. In this document, the loss is expressed at 5
GHz frequency. |
| Reach | Reach is a way express the insertion loss of the channel in
simple terms. The following terms are used in the document:- Very Short
Channel or Very Short Reach: Channel loss is less than 2
dB.
- Short length
Channel or Short Reach: Channel loss is less than 6.5
dB.
- Medium length
Channel or Medium Reach: Channel loss is less than 17
dB.
- Long length
Channel or Long Reach: Channel loss is less than 25 dB.
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| Libero® SoC | It is a software to design and generate the PolarFire® FPGA programming bit file. |
| SmartDebug | A tool in the Libero SoC used for debugging the transceiver
online. |
| IBIS-AMI | IBIS-AMI is a set of files used to simulate the PolarFire
transceiver with channel, using simulators such as ADS, Hyperlynx,
SystemSI, QCD and so on. IBIS-AMI simulations helps in finalizing
the transceiver settings and sign-off its hardware. |
