Specifications
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installation
- 3 Navigating the LCD Display Screens
- 3.1 Basic Operating Procedure
- 3.2 Starting Point: The Main LCD Touch Screen
- 3.3 LCD Display Flow Chart
- 3.4 Details of the Exciter Status Screens
- 3.4.1 System Status Screen
- 3.4.2 Transport Stream Status Screen
- 3.4.3 Adaptive Processing Board Status Screen
- 3.4.4 Digital Processing Screens
- 3.4.4.1 Modulator Board Status, Screen 1/2
- 3.4.4.2 ADC and DAC Boards Status, Screen 2/2
- 3.4.4.3 FLO FPGA Status, Summary, Screen 1/5
- 3.4.4.4 FLO FPGA, GPS & Clock Status, Screen 2/5
- 3.4.4.5 FLO FPGA, Transport Stream Status, Screen 3/5
- 3.4.4.6 FLO FPGA, SFN FIFO Status, Screen 4/5
- 3.4.4.7 FLO FPGA, MTI Status, Screen 5/5
- 3.4.5 IF & RF Processing Status Screens
- 3.4.6 System Control Status Screens
- 3.5 Built In Tests
- 3.6 Details of the System Setup Screens
- 3.7 RTAC Operating Procedures, Main Screen.
- 4 Theory of Operation
- 5 Maintenance and Troubleshooting
- 5.1 Exciter Maintenance
- 5.2 Loading Software
- 5.3 Default Settings For DIagnostics Screens
- 5.4 Typical Settings for the More Critical Exciter Setups
- 5.5 Exciter Troubleshooting Flow Charts
- 5.6 General Troubleshooting
- 5.7 System Troubleshooting
- 5.8 Exciter Troubleshooting
- 6 Parts List
- Appendix A Exciter GUI Screen Captures

APEX™ Exciter Incorporating FLO™ Technology
Details of the System Setup Screens Navigating the LCD Display Screens
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3.6.7.2 FPGA Configure 2/5
FPGASetup2.bmp
Figure 3-41 FPGA Configure 2/5
FPGA Configure 2/5 consists of registers whose values are written immediately to the
FPGA when changed through the GUI and other software parameters.
No FPGA re-initialization occurs when these registers and parameters are changed.
The parameters of the FPGA Configure 2/5 screen are as follows.
• SFN Mode: Indication is On or Off
• SFN Limit: Software parameter, time in microseconds, range 0-999)
• 1PPS Mute Delay: Displayed in minutes, with a range 0 to 2000.
When the GPS 1PPS signal loss (shown in the Main Screen > Status > Digital Pro-
cessing > FLO FPGA Registers > GPS and Clock Status screen) exceeds the 1PPS
Mute Delay time, the GPS 1PPS Loss indication in the GPS and Clock Status screen
will change to YES (in red) and cause the exciter to mute.
• PRBS On/Off: Indication is On or Off
• TDM1 Null: Indication is On or Off. This register is not part of the initialization se-
quence.)
• FPGA Access has following functions:
• From AC restart, the FPGA access mode is always enabled, but it can be dis-
abled at any time.
• In the FPGA access disable mode:
The periodic access to the FPGA will be blocked, except for flywheel and in-
ternal GPS.
FPGA will not be initialized by SW
LCD interface to FPGA is not blocked, the user must decide to decide to
change the configuration from GUI.
The mute to exciter cannot be performed by SW since it now has no access
to the FPGA.