ASTRON UniBoard2 User manual

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UniBoard2
Manual (DRAFT)
Organisatie / Organization
Datum / Date
Auteur(s) / Author(s):
Gijs Schoonderbeek ASTRON 28-08-2015
Goedkeuring / Approval:
A.W. Gunst Astron
© ASTRON
All rights are reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part is
prohibited without written consent of the copyright owner.

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Table of contents:
1Introduction...........................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Reference documents (RD) .......................................................................................................... 4
2Safety, Regulatory and Environmental Information................................................................................ 4
2.1 Warranty....................................................................................................................................... 4
2.2 General Safety Considerations ..................................................................................................... 4
2.3 Preventing Electrostatic Discharge Damage.................................................................................. 5
2.4 Preventing Connector Damage..................................................................................................... 5
2.5 Shipment for Service ....................................................................................................................5
2.6 Regulatory Information..................................................................................................................5
2.7 CE directive..................................................................................................................................5
2.8 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive....................................................... 5
2.8.1 Known Hazardous materials: .................................................................................................... 6
2.9 Environmental conditions.............................................................................................................. 6
2.10 Contact Information ...................................................................................................................... 6
3Included in the package........................................................................................................................6
4Peripherals ........................................................................................................................................... 6
4.1 Needed peripherals, with recommendations.................................................................................. 6
4.2 Optional peripherals......................................................................................................................7
4.2.1 QSFP+ .....................................................................................................................................7
5Specifications........................................................................................................................................7
6ON/OFF................................................................................................................................................ 7
7How to connect to UniBoard..................................................................................................................8
7.1 Ethernet control............................................................................................................................ 8
7.2 PPS-input.....................................................................................................................................8
7.3 Fuses ...........................................................................................................................................8
8Default flash firmware Image................................................................................................................. 9
8.1 Board ID....................................................................................................................................... 9
9JUMPERS ............................................................................................................................................9
9.1 JTAG Jumpers..............................................................................................................................9
9.2 Clock Jumpers............................................................................................................................ 10
9.2.1 System Clock.......................................................................................................................... 10
9.2.2 Transceiver Clocks ................................................................................................................. 10
9.3 Power Supply Jumpers............................................................................................................... 11
10 LEDs.............................................................................................................................................. 11
11 Onboard Connectors...................................................................................................................... 12
11.1.1 Ethernet Connector............................................................................................................. 12
11.2 Switch readout............................................................................................................................ 12
11.3 Power Readout........................................................................................................................... 13
12 Test result summary....................................................................................................................... 15
13 Instrument Markings....................................................................................................................... 16
List of figures:

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Figure 1 ON/OFF switch............................................................................................................................... 7
Figure 2 Fuse on UniBoard2......................................................................................................................... 8
Figure 3 JTAG jumper locations...................................................................................................................9
Figure 4 Location of clock selection jumpers.............................................................................................. 10
Figure 5 Location of Transceiver clock enable jumpers............................................................................... 10
Figure 6 FPGA Power enable jumpers....................................................................................................... 11
Figure 7 Ethernet Connections................................................................................................................... 12
Figure 8 Switch Terminal Connector........................................................................................................... 12
Figure 9 POL readout connector................................................................................................................ 14

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1 Introduction
Please read the following manual carefully before using your UniBoard2board revision 1.0. This manual
contains important information on how to properly operate this unit. In this manual the safety and regulatory
information is included. In this manual the parts included in the delivery package as well as peripheral parts
for UniBoard2are described. In a separate section optional parts are discussed. The parts discussed in this
document have been tested with UniBoard2rev 1.
All boards are tested with boundary scan and functional tests using the peripherals and tests as described in
this document. For known issues or new issues please use the issue tracer at
http://support.astron.nl/redmine (ask for more details about the issue tracker Andre Gunst, [e-mail])
1.1 Reference documents (RD)
Reference document which can be found on
http://www.radionet-eu.org/radionet3wiki/doku.php?id=jra:uniboard2:documents (ask for more details about
the wiki Arpad Szomoru, [e-mail])
Ref.nr.
Document number
Title
RD-1
ASTRON-IS-?? 1.0
UniBoard2Hardware rev 2.0 Firmware Build in Self Test
RD-2
ASTRON-RP-???
Risk analysis report UniBoard2
RD-3
ASTRON-RP-???
Measurements for CE
2 Safety, Regulatory and Environmental Information
2.1 Warranty
This ASTRON product is warranted against defects in material and workmanship for a period of one year
from the date of shipment. During the warranty period ASTRON will, at its option, either repair or replace
UniBoard2that prove to be defective.
For warranty service or repair, UniBoard2must be returned to ASTRON. Buyer shall pay shipping charges to
ASTRON and ASTRON shall pay shipping charges to return the product to buyer. However, buyer shall pay
all shipping charges, duties and taxes for products returned to Astron from another country.
2.2 General Safety Considerations
WARNING
If this product is not used as specified, the protection provided by the equipment could be
impaired. This product must be used in a normal condition (in which all means for
protection are intact) only.
CAUTION
Ventilation Requirements: When installing the product in a cabinet, the convection into
and out of the product must not be restricted. The ambient temperature (outside the
cabinet) must be less than the maximum operating temperature of the instrument by 4 °C
for every 100 watts dissipated in the cabinet. If the total power dissipated in the cabinet is
greater than 800 watts, then forced convection must be used.
WARNING
These servicing instructions are for use by qualified personnel only. To avoid electrical
shock, do not perform any servicing unless you are qualified to do so.
WARNING
The opening of covers or removal of parts may expose dangerous voltages. Disconnect
the UniBoard
2
from all voltage sources before it is being opened.
WARNING
UniBoard2in made for indoor use, don’t expose the device to water.
CAUTION
The customer has to include over temperature protection in the firmware.
CAUTION
Changes or modifications not expressly approved by ASTRON, which is responsible
for CE compliance, could void the user’s authority to operate this equipment.

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2.3 Preventing Electrostatic Discharge Damage
Protection against electrostatic discharge (ESD) is essential while connecting cables and assemblies (DUT)
to the UniBoard2. Static electricity can build up on your body and can easily damage sensitive internal circuit
elements when discharged. Static discharges too small to be felt can cause permanent damage. To prevent
damage to the UniBoard:
•always have a grounded, conductive table mat in front of UniBoard2.
•always wear a grounded wrist strap, connected to a grounded conductive table mat, having a 1 MΩ
resistor in series with it, when handling components and assemblies or when making connections.
•always wear a heel strap or ESD shoes when working in an area with a conductive floor. If you are
uncertain about the conductivity of your floor, wear a heel strap.
•always ground yourself before you clean, inspect, or make a connection.
2.4 Preventing Connector Damage
Visual Inspection and Gagging Connectors
Do
Do Not
Inspect connectors with magnifying glass
Use a connector with a bent or broken center
conductor
Look for metal debris, deep scratches or dents
Use a connector with deformed threads
Inspect and gage connectors
Use a connect or with a protruding center conductor
Use correct torque wrench
Use an out-of-specification connector
Making Connections
Align connectors first
Cross-thread the connection
For SMA connector rotate only the connector nut
Twist connector body to make the connection
Use correct torque wrench
Mate different connector types
2.5 Shipment for Service
Contact ASTRON for instructions on how to ship the UniBoard2for service. Ship UniBoard2only using the
original packaging material. Shipping UniBoard2in anything other than the original packaging may result in
non-warranted damage.
2.6 Regulatory Information
This product has been designed and tested in accordance with accepted industry standards, and has been
supplied in a safe condition. The documentation contains information and warnings that must be followed by
the user to ensure safe operation and to maintain the product in a safe condition.
2.7 CE directive
This product complies with the CE directive.
2.8 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive
Directive 2002/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. The wheelie bin
symbol (left) is shown on this product. It indicates that the product should not be disposed
of with regular household waste, but should be disposed of separately. Electrical and
electronic equipment can contain materials that are hazardous to the environment and
human health and therefore should be disposed of at a designated waste facility or
returned to ASTRON for the appropriate recycling to take place. If you wish to dispose of
this product and the product still functions, please consider recycling/reusing it.
This product has been designed for proto type purposes. Therefor this product is not RoHS compliant. To
ensure compliance with the requirement of the WEEE directive, UniBoards which achieved at the end of their
life must be returned to ASTRON. ASTRON will ensure environment friendly recycling of UniBoard.

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2.8.1 Known Hazardous materials:
For the production of this board, leaded solder is used.
2.9 Environmental conditions
Uniboard2is developed for stationary, 19” rack mount use in a building.
Temperature range: +10C to +30°C
Humidity 20% RH to 90% RH (non condensing)
Uniboard2should not be subjected to water.
2.10 Contact Information
All inquiries, comments or suggestions concerning this and other ASTRON equipment and manuals should
be directed to:
ASTRON
Gijs Schoonderbeek
Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4
7991 PD Dwingeloo
Tel: [phone]
3 Included in the package
Table 1 Package content
Number
Manufacturer.
Type
UniBoard2
1
ASTRON
rev 2.0
UNB2_TB
1
ASTRON
rev
Memory
8
Micron
MTA18ASF1G72HZ-2G1A1
Fans for cooling
4
Multicomp
MC21689, Axial 60mm 48VDC
Power connector
1
Metal Housing
1
4 Peripherals
4.1 Needed peripherals, with recommendations
Table 2 Recommended peripherals
Specification
Manufacturer
Type
Power Source
48V 500W
Meanwell
RCP-1K1UI-48
JTAG programmer
Altera
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4.2 Optional peripherals
4.2.1 QSFP+
Connections to the front nodes, each node has 4 slots, given 16 slots for a single UniBoard.
Table 3 QSFP examples
Specification
Manufacturer
Type
Transceiver
QSFP+, 40Gb, 850nm
Avago
AFBR-79EIPZ
AOCA
40GbE, 10m
TE
2123909-4
5 Specifications
Table 4 UniBoard2Specifications
Input power
48V DC
Power consumption
500W
Size
Weight
??
Ambient temperature
10-27°C
6 ON/OFF
The FPGAs on UniBoard2need sequencing to prevent damage on the FPGA’s. It is therefore better to use
the button on UniBoard2for power down the board before the power board is switched on and off.
Figure 1 ON/OFF switch
OFF
ON

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7 How to connect to UniBoard
Minimal connections see Error! Reference source not found. and Error! Reference source not found. for
the location of the connections are:
Table 5 UniBoard2connectors
Connection
Side
Specification
Power
Back side
Isolated 48V DC
Clock
Back side
200MHz
JTAG
Back side
Altera pinning
Ethernet
Front side
Standard RJ45
In Error! Reference source not found. the back side is shown. Error! Reference source not found.
shows more details about the connections which have to be made to power up the board.
48V input remark:
7.1 Ethernet control
UniBoard2has an isolated 48V power input. This means that a positive 48V power supply
should be connected with the +48V-connection to the pin in the middle of connector P31 and the GND-
connection to the left and right pins of P31.
Up to four cables can be connected to UniBoard. Standard CAT6 10/100/1000BASE-T cables can be used.
7.2 PPS-input
For the pulse per second input (PPS) a simple pulse generator like the Agilent 33250A can be used. The
setting depends on the firmware used. For the test image a pulse with an edge time of 5ns, a pulse width of
5ms and a period of 1s can be used. This pulse generator can be locked to the clock through the 10MHz
reference input.
7.3 Fuses
On UniBoard2, direct behind the power connector a fuse is placed. The fuses is 10A fast acting Littlefuse 154
Series type, with part number 0453010. In Figure 2 the location of the fuses are shown.
Figure 2 Fuse on UniBoard2
10A fuse

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8 Default flash firmware Image
In the flash a default image, see RD-4, is installed. When the board is powered up the QSFP LED’s will be
red during build in self test and start blinking green when the test is successful.
8.1 Board ID
Depending on the firmware an external ID can be used for example the Ethernet IP/MAC. In Error!
Reference source not found. the location of the dip-switch is shown. This dipswitch is located at the back
side of the box.
9 JUMPERS
9.1 JTAG Jumpers
To use JTAG, Node 3 has to be enabled, see section 9.3. In the firmware of the Lattice CPLD (U4) the JTAG
jumpers are programmed as shown in Table 6.
Table 6 JTAG jumper functions
J6
J5
J4
J3
J2
Function
open
x
x
x
x
Scanbridge mode
placed
open
open
open
Open
All FPGAs in the loop
placed
x
x
x
placed
Skip node 0
placed
x
x
placed
x
Skip node 1
placed
x
placed
x
x
Skip node 2
placed
placed
X
x
x
Skip node 3
J8 and J9 must be placed to pin 1-2 for normal operation (to the backplane side of the board), by placing the
jumpers to 3-4 the CPLD (U4) can be programmed. J1 and J7 are not used by the firmware in the Lattice
device (U4). In Figure 3 the locations of the jumpers are shown.
Figure 3 JTAG jumper locations
For programming the FPGAs with the Altera USBBlaster the front and back nodes can be placed in a single
loop by placing J4 and J9 (see Table 6). In Altera’s Quartus II programming utility Node 0 is placed at
location 1, Node 1 at location 2, Node 2 at location 3 and Node 3 at location 4.
J2
J3
J4
J5
J6
J8
J9
Lat.
Func.

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9.2 Clock Jumpers
9.2.1 System Clock
With J12 1-2 the clock can be selected. By placing the jumper onboard XO is used. By removing the jumper
the input from the backplane is used. In Figure 4 the location of the jumpers are shown.
Figure 4 Location of clock selection jumpers
9.2.2 Transceiver Clocks
To enable the transceiver clocks the jumpers J13 3-4 (SER_CLK_A) and J12 3-4 (SER_CLK_B) should be
placed, see Figure 5 Location of Transceiver clock enable jumpers
Figure 5 Location of Transceiver clock enable jumpers
SYS_CLK
SER_CLK_B
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9.3 Power Supply Jumpers
The power of every FPGA can be disabled when needed. For this J3_x is placed next to every FPGA, see
Figure 6. By placing the jumper between 1-2 the FPGA are powered as normal, by placing the jumper
between 3-4 the power of the FPGA is disabled.
Figure 6 FPGA Power enable jumpers
10 LEDs
The power LED is integrated in the ON/OFF switch, the functions of the LED are shown in Table 7.
Table 7 Power LED
LED
State
Red
Power down
Green
Power on
On the QSFP cage light pipe are placed to show one LED per cage. The function of the LED is determined
by the firmware. The function of the LED for the factory image is shown in Table 8
Table 8 QSFP Cage LED
LED
State
Red
???
Green
???
J3_x
OFF
ON

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11 Onboard Connectors
11.1.1 Ethernet Connector
The Ethernet connector is shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7 Ethernet Connections
In table the function of the ports are shown
Table 9 Function of Ethernet ports
PORT
Function
PORT
Function
1
VLAN 0
4
VLAN 0
2
VLAN 0
5
NOT USED
3
VLAN 0
6
NOT USED
11.2 Switch readout
On UniBoard2 a connector is placed for a RS232 terminal to readout the statistics of the Ethernet switch. In
Figure 8 the pinning of the connector is shown.
Figure 8 Switch Terminal Connector
For the communication to UniBoard Realterm could be used. The COM port must be set to 8 data bits, 1 stop
bit, no parity 9600 baud and without flow control.
Act. LED ??
Speed LED
PORT 1
PORT 2
PORT 5
PORT 6
Speed LED
Act. LED ??
GND
Tx
GNDRx
GND

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In the following subsections debug functions are described. The basic functions are described in [RD-5].
11.2.1 Version
With ‘v’ the version of the software and the chip can be readout. On the bottom of the version the mapping of
the switch ports to FPGA and copper ports are shown, where “ll” stands for lower left RJ45 port, “ul” for
upper left, “lr” for lower left and “ur” for the upper left port.
The result will look like:
UniBoard2 0.4
UniBoard2
Length Jumbo: 9600
Chip id: 273890e9
PRT0 PRT1 PRT2 PRT3 PRT4 PRT5 PRT6 PRT7 PRT8 PRT9 PRT10 PRT11 PRT12 PRT13
N0-0 N0-1 N1-0 N1-1 N2-0 N2-1 N3-0 N3-1 C ll C ul C lm C um C lr C ur
11.2.2 Status
With ‘s’ the status of the switch can be readout. This will plot the status of the port and the number of
transmitted and received octets since the last read out. The result will look like:
Port Status RXOCT TXOCT
0 Port Up 0x00000000 0x00000000
1 Port Down 0x00000000 0x00000000
2 Port Up 0x00000000 0x00000000
3 Port Down 0x00000000 0x00000000
4 Port Up 0x00000000 0x00000000
5 Port Down 0x00000000 0x00000000
6 Port Up 0x00000000 0x00000000
7 Port Down 0x00000000 0x00000000
8 Port Down 0x00000000 0x00000000
9 Port Up 0x00000000 0x00000000
10 Port Down 0x00000000 0x00000000
11 Port Down 0x00000000 0x00000000
12 Port Down 0x00000000 0x00000000
13 Port Down 0x00000000 0x00000000
11.2.3 Reboot
With ‘b’ the switch can be rebooted.
11.3 Power Readout
On Uniboard2digital power Point of loads are placed. This will enable readout of the power consumption per
regulator. This can be done by the FPGA, but for debugging an Ericsson controller and software can be used
to readout and adjust the converters. For this a header is placed close to every FPGA, see Figure 9.

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Figure 9 POL readout connector
The input brick and the PIM cannot be read out with an external controller.
GND
SD
SCL

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12 Test result summary
UniBoard2Test Result Summary
Customer:……..
UniBoard2serial number: ………
Date of test: ……….
Test conductor: ………
Items to be checked during the end test / inspection:
Yes
No
1. PCB tested?
2. Production test, X-Ray and Optical inspection passed ?
3. All power supplies within 5%?1
4. Boundary scan passed?
5. Default firmware stored in flash?
6. Basic board interconnections passed?
7. Board IO interconnections passed?
8. Visual inspection: UniBoard2, memory, housing, manual, power cables and CE
mark?
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









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The UniBoard2with serial number mentioned above is:
Rejected if one or more items of above list indicate “No”
Passed and released for shipment if all items indicate “Yes”
Company: ASTRON
Inspector: ……
Date of end inspection: ……
Signature:……
Copy of this sheet to be added with the Hardware
1Measured with unconfigured FPGAs

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13 Instrument Markings
The instruction documentation symbol. The product is marked with this symbol when it
is necessary for the user to refer to the instructions in the documentation.
This symbol indicates separate collection for electrical and electronic equipment,
mandated under EU law as of August 13, 2005. All electrical and electronic equipment
are required to be separated from normal waste for disposal (Reference WEEE
Directive, 2002/96/EC.
The CE mark is a registered trademark of the European Community. (If accompanied by
a year, it is when the design was proven.)