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Intel® IO Margin Tool: Quick Reference Guide Revision 1.2.11 September 2020 Document Number: 615876
Intel® IO Margin Tool: Quick Reference Guide Revision 1.2.11 September 2020 Document Number: 615876
Intel® IO Margin Tool: Quick Reference Guide Revision 1.2.11 September 2020 Document Number: 615876
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Quick Guide Contents
• Introduction
• Tool Release package
• Understanding Controller and Target Configurations
• Margining Methodology
• Margin Result Analysis
• Tool UI Walkthrough
• Importing Results from several systems
• Target Controller Configuration Setup
• Debug Tips
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Intel® IO Margin - Intel® Electrical Margin Tool Next
Generation
• New graphical interface for improved user experience.
• Easier testing of multiple target systems.
• Analysis which provides flexibility in the number of target system tested and guidance.
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Intel® IO Margin Tool
Tiger Lake
Intel® IO Margin Tool measures the Interfaces
(UP3/UP4)
functional on-die electrical margin of high-
PCI Express*
speed IO (HSIO) interfaces (PCIe*)
Usages include:
USB 3.1
Validating the electrical robustness of HSIO
interfaces.
Serial ATA (SATA)
Identifying board routing issues.
Optimizing IO equalization settings. TCSS USB
PCIe* CPU(Gen 4)
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Tool Release Package
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Understanding Controller and Target Configurations
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Targets are connected to the controller through a HTTP/IP connection.
Targets are registered to a controller during installation.
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Testing Standalone Targets
Controller
Controller Manual Manual
Controller Controller
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Margining Methodology
READY to Margin!
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Margin Result Analysis
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Three Region Eye Mask
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Three Region Eye Mask (Cont.)
The limits of the eye mask regions change depending on the number of
systems and number of repeat tests performed per system.
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Passing/Additional Testing Requirement/Failing Systems Examples
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Other Features
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Intel® IO Margin Tool UI Walkthrough
IOMT UI Walkthrough
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IOMT UI Walkthrough
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IOMT UI Walkthrough
Devices propperly Click Next Select all targets Expanded view of the Interface
recognized
Information
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.) (PEG, DMI Applicable only for S/H SKUs)
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.) (PEG, DMI applicable only for S/H SKUs)
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.)
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.)
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.)
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.)
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.)
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.)
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.) (PEG, DMI applicable only for S/H SKUs)
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.)
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Mouse hover to understand the “Margin Type”, “Voltage and Timing Limit” Click Run
terminologies.
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.)
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IOMT UI Walkthrough (Cont.)
SAVE
Overall
Margining Result
Recommendations
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Controller+ Target Configuration Setup
Controller + Target Configuration Setup
Prerequisites: Steps:
Intel IOMT/IPSS should not be installed on any 1. Install Intel PSS in the controller machine.
machine. 2. Copy C:/Intel/IPSS/target.cfg from controller machine.
All target and controller machines: 3. Create C:/Intel/IPSS folder if it does not exists in the target machine.
• Should use the same IPSS version. 4. Paste the target.cfg copied before to C:/Intel/IPSS folder in the target machine.
• Should have unique names. 5. Install Intel PSS in the target machine. target.
c. When detection is over, 2 systems should be available: the target and the
controller.
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Debug Help
In case of any tool issues submit a IPS ticket with the below set of files for debug along with the requested details-
Platform Name/SKU
Tool version number
Share “msinfo32” file listing the OS and other driver information
Installation log from the below path:
C:\Intel\IPSS\installation.log
Result File logs from the below path:
C:\Intel\IPSS\ipssx.x\Lib\site-packages\evToolsTests\localTestsRepository\iomargin\results
Intel PSS log files from the below path:
C:\Intel\IPSS\ipssx.x\Lib\site-packages\evToolsServer\log\EVservices.log
C:\Intel\IPSS\ipssx.x\Lib\site-packages\evToolsServer\log\EVtar.log
In case you see detecting issues, send these additional log
C:\Intel\IPSS\ipssx.x\Lib\site-packages\ssa\tests\{Autogenerated-Number}\ExtractedContent\{anyFile.log}
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