The DAC38RFxx JESD204B interface can be configures with one or two links. The advantage of using two links, one for each DAC, is that one link can be re-established without affecting the other link and DAC.
The configuration for each mode of operation are:
- Dual DAC, dual link
- Program fields OCTETPATH0_SEL to OCTETPATH7_SEL in multi-DUC paged registers JESD_CROSSBAR1 (8.5.57) and JESD_CROSSBAR2 (8.5.58) so that each multi-DUC will pick data off of the appropriate SerDes lane.
- Appropriate bits in field LANE_ENA in multi-DUC paged register JESD_LN_EN (8.5.45) must be set for each multi-DUC enable the lanes used.
- Field ONE_DAC_ONLY in register RESET_CONFIG (8.5.1) should be ‘0’ (default).
- Dual DAC, single link
- Program OCTETPATH0_SEL to OCTETPATH7_SEL in multi-DUC paged registers JESD_CROSSBAR1 (8.5.57) and JESD_CROSSBAR2 (8.5.58) so that each multi-DUC will pick data off the appropriate SerDes lane.
- Appropriate bits in field LANE_ENA in multi-DUC paged register JESD_LN_EN (8.5.45) must be set for each multi-DUC enable the lanes used.
- Set field ONE_LINK_ONLY to ‘1’ to configure TXENABLE output.
- Single DAC, single link
- Set Field ONE_DAC_ONLY in register RESET_CONFIG (8.5.1) to ‘1’ to gate clocks to unused multi-DUC2 for power savings.
- ONE_LINK_ONLY bit does not matter in this case.