i.MX6 Rev 1.9 and Rev 2.0 ADIN1300 PHY Qualification Process

Date

Owner

Revision

Notes

Date

Owner

Revision

Notes

Feb 21, 2022

 

Alvaro Karsz

1.0

 

Table of Contents

Background

Following SolidRun’s PCN on i.MX6 SOM Rev 1.5 migrating to Rev 1.9 and Rev 2.0, this article explains the qualification procedure that SolidRun performed to make sure the performance of Analog Devices ADIN1300 PHY is adequate and no performance / quality / stability issues are affecting any customer.

Auto negotiation (A/N) test

ethtool was used to select the speed with A/N on.

1Gbps

$ ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg on [ 8548.041399] fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: Link is Down [ 8551.757596] fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx

100Mbps

$ ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg on [ 8617.585894] fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: Link is Down [ 8620.397596] fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control rx/tx

10Mbps

$ ethtool -s eth0 speed 10 duplex full autoneg on [ 8648.151779] fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: Link is Down [ 8650.557544] fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 10Mbps/Full - flow control rx/tx

Stress test

Stress test using iperf for 30 minutes.

Cable length [m]

Speed [Mpbs]

Number of retries

3

1000

0

50

1000

0

100

1000

49

 

Retries for 100M cable iperf

Thermal

Thermal analysis of the PHY

 

Max. temperature in PHY (Poly 1): ~71 °C.

Max. temperature in the SOM (Poly 3): ~75°C in SoC.

Thermal snapshot was taken after a weekend long iperf, without a heat-sink.

Conclusion

Based on SolidRun’s short and long term tests, we find that Analog Devices ADIN1300 ethernet PHY meets the requirements of the datasheet and SolidRun did not observe any stability, reliability or thermal problems.

 

SolidRun Ltd.