Most Vivado Integrated Design Environment (IDE) fields have tool tips which serve as guidelines to configure and generate the core properly. Refer to and follow all RECOMMENDED and IMPORTANT notes in the product guide.
RECOMMENDED: Ensure that the serial transceiver attributes are updated. See Generating a Wrapper File from the Transceiver Wizard for instructions and information about updating the serial transceiver attribute settings. This section provides a debug flow diagram for resolving some of the most common issues.
This section provides a debug flow diagram for resolving some of the most common issues. See GT_Debug_Flowchart for transceiver debugging mentioned in the following Answer Record: AR: 57237
The Transceiver Debug ports mentioned in Table: NFC Codes are operational when you enable the Additional Transceiver Control and Status Ports option in Aurora_8b10b interface. Refer to Aurora_8b10b IP Example design for recommended connections for additional transceiver control and status ports in the following guides:
•7 Series FPGAs GTX/GTH Transceivers User Guide (UG476) [Ref 3]
•UltraScale Architecture GTH Transceivers User Guide (UG576) [Ref 1]
This Figure shows the various steps for performing a hardware debug.