Xilinx, Amirix team up in MultiBERT reference design

Xilinx Inc. and Amirix Systems have announced a reference design specifically developed for use with Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs, named MultiBERT.

According to the companies, the design leverages Virtex-II Pro's embedded RocketIO multigigabit serial transceivers (MGTs) to provide a multi-channel, high-speed serial tester for use in serial backplane validation applications.

Moreover, the MultiBERT reference design allows for the creation of test cards, which send pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) traffic simultaneously over multiple 622Mbps to 3.125Gbps backplane channels.