The SYZYGY Transceiver port offers two channels of high speed transceiver lanes connected to the Zynq 7000 GTP transceiver pins on the Brain-1.

Xilinx provides the IBERT tool to test and experiment with gigabit transceivers.  The settings below are compatible with the SYZYGY Brain-1 using Vivado 2017.3:

Xilinx’s IBERT tool enables an automated self-measurement of a GTP channel’s eye diagram when used in a loopback mode. Eye diagrams for three different speeds were captured using this tool with a simple loopback peripheral attached to the expansion headers. While results may vary, these are typical captures and actually represent the worst case capture over all channels for the respective rates.

Note that in loopback modes, it can be helpful to disable the GBT DFE (decision feedback equalizer) to avoid over-compensation. In these test cases, the DFE has been left enabled.