Versatile

Software Solution
for MIPI C-PHY
TX Testing
Paul Willis
UNH-IOL
 Contents
•  Who is the UNH-IOL?
•  C-PHY TX Testing Tool Overview
•  Physical Test Setup
•  Clock and Data Recovery
•  HS Packet Decode
•  HS TX tests

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 UNH-IOL
• MIPI Member since 2007
• Helped develop D-PHY Test Suite
• Authored DPHYGUI Test Tool
• Active test house for MIPI CSI, MIPI DSI,
and MIPI D-PHY
• Active in the Test Work Group
• Work with several other Organizations to
develop new technologies
• Employ 100 university students

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 Testing MIPI C-PHY TX
• Address issue of missing reference
platform for performing C-PHY CTS TX
tests
• The industry has need for this software
• Will be available for purchase to MIPI
members
• Meant to complement oscilloscope
software package offerings

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 CPHYGUI Overview
•  MATLAB based software measurement tool
•  Evaluate PHY TX characteristics
•  Capture, import, and process waveforms
•  Can download captures or import saved waveform files
from Tektronix, Keysight, LeCroy, and Rhode & Schwarz
oscilloscopes
•  Decode HS packets and LP sequences
•  Display and manage measurement results in GUI
•  Load/save measurement results
•  Command Line Interface

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CPHYGUI

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 Test Setup
•  Real time oscilloscope
•  High impedance probes
•  C-PHY Reference Termination Board
•  RTB may be used as probing point with probe tips soldered to the board

GPIB / Computer
Oscilloscope
Ethernet CPHYGUI

Ch 1/2/3
Da A/B/C

DUT Probing C-PHY

Da A/B/C Da A/B/C
(P339) Point RTB

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 Clock and Data Recovery
•  Lowpass filter data
•  Find differential edge times
•  Throw out edges from out of spec UI (too long/short)
•  Find mode of UI length
•  Run second pass using previously estimated UI length

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 Decoder
•  Byte level decode of HS burst packets
•  Protocol aware (CSI-2 and DSI) planned
•  LP decoder planned
•  Output to console
•  Option to save log to text file

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 HS-TX Tests
•  Capture from oscilloscope or import from file
•  Sample rate above 5 GS/s and burst length of at least 5 thousand
symbols suggested.
•  Cropped single burst:

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 TLPX, T3-PREPARE, T3-PREAMBLE, and T3-SYNC
•  HS entry timers measured as described in CTS
•  TLPX: Time between VA and VC crossing VIL,MAX (550 mV).
•  T3-PREPARE: Time between end of TLPX and HS-0 (+/- 40 mV).
•  T3-PREAMBLE: Verifies length of preamble (in place of following tests).
•  T3-PREBEGIN/T3-PROGSEQ/T3-PREEND: To be implemented.
•  T3-SYNC: verify sync word (3,4,4,4,4,4,4,3) after preamble

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VOD (max strong, min weak HS-0 and HS-1)
•  Eye based measurements performed on all three
differential pairs (VOD-AB, VOD-BC, VOD-CA)
•  Measured at -20% of UI
•  Calculate ΔVOD by subtracting absolute value of
maximum strong 1 from absolute value of strong 0.
•  Take highest value from all three differential pairs

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 VOHHS
•  Mean of single ended waveform taken at -20% of UI
•  Applicable to all 3 single ended lines

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 VCPTX and ΔVCPTX(HS)
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 T3-POST
•  Verify that the last 7 symbols in the burst are the “4”
symbol

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