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  • The two FMC cards must be placed in the AMC 525 carrier in the correct slots, with the Digital I/O card in slot 0 and the FMC 500 in slot 1.  See the image below to verify the correct configuration:
  • Note that in order to avoid an I2C collision with an AMC temperature sensor (and thus a MTCA IPMI alert which won't go away) it is necessary to cut a line on the Digital I/O card (is this documented anywhere?
  • When placing the AMC cards in the crate it seems that it is necessary to be careful about which cards are (logically) adjacent to the processor card.  To avoid problems, at DLS we have install the processor card in slot 6 and the carrier cards in slots 2 and 3 (note that these slot numbers don't correspond to the PCIe addresses which we'll encounter later).  Specifically, it seems that with the processor card in slot 6 we need to avoid placing a carrier card in slot 5, as otherwise the processor card tries to boot from non-existent mass storage in this slot!
  • Now e-keying must be configured.  At this point we recommend that all serial ports are configured with the same data rate, ...

E-key configuration

Once the hardware has been configured as above the crate can be powered on and the e-keying for the CPU and AMC525 must be set up.  This will be particularly important to ensure that the PCIe link works properly.

CPU e-key

Code Block
Payload SOL Port   : Serial1
Gbe Management Port: back0
Shutdown delay     : 30s

Commands:
  ekey          - Configure Electronic Keying
  lan           - Configure LAN Parameters
  plser         - Configure Payload Serial Port
  mgtport       - Configure Gbe Management Port
  wdcfg         - Configure Watchdog Parameters
  shutdowndelay - Configure shut down delay
> ekey

E-Keying configuration
*  1) Gigabit Ethernet - Port 0        *  2) Gigabit Ethernet - Port 1        
*  3) PCIe Root -  Ports 4-11             4) PCIe Root -  Ports 4-7           
   5) PCIe Root -  Ports 8-11             6) SATA Client - Port 2             
   7) SATA Client - Port 3             

Commands:
  1-7 to toggle option.
  save, cancel

Ensure that the following are configured:


TitlePurpose
*1Gigabit Ethernet - Port 0Administration interface to AMC cards and MCH
*3PCIe Root - Ports 4-118 lane PCIe connection to AMC carrier cards

AMC e-key

Connect to the MGT-RS232 port on the AMC525 front panel, and type ekey at the prompt.  Adjust for the following settings:

Code Block
AMC525 > ekey

E-Keying configuration
*  1) Gigabit Ethernet - Port 0        *  2) Gigabit Ethernet - Port 1        
   3) SATA Server - Port 2                4) SATA Client - Port 2             
   5) SATA Server - Port 3                6) SATA Client - Port 3             
   7) SAS - Port 2                        8) SAS - Port 3                     
   9) PCIe Root -  Ports 4-11            10) PCIe Root -  Ports 4-7           
  11) PCIe Root -  Ports 8-11          * 12) PCIe Node -  Ports 4-11          
  13) PCIe Node -  Ports 4-7             14) PCIe Node -  Ports 8-11          
  15) SRIO 3.125 Gbaud - Ports 4-7       16) SRIO 2.5   Gbaud - Ports 4-7     
  17) SRIO 1.25  Gbaud - Ports 4-7       18) SRIO 3.125 Gbaud - Ports 8-11    
  19) SRIO 2.5   Gbaud - Ports 8-11      20) SRIO 1.25  Gbaud - Ports 8-11    
  21) XAUI - Port 4-7                    22) XAUI - Port 8-11                 

Commands:
  1-22 to toggle option.
  save, cancel

Ensure that the following are configured:


TitlePurpose
*1Gigabit Ethernet - Port 0Administration interface from CPU
*12PCIe Node - Ports 4-118 lane PCIe connection to CPU carrier cards

Also the vadj setting must be configured as otherwise the FMC cards will not be powered on.

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