Datasheet
User’s Guide
January 2012
DRIVECABLE04EVK
SNLU071 DRIVECABLE04EVK 1
Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 1
2 Setup .......................................................................................................................................................... 2
2.1 DRIVECABLE04-TX Setup ............................................................................................................... 2
2.2 DRIVECABLE04-RX Setup .............................................................................................................. 2
2.3 Operation .......................................................................................................................................... 3
3 Board Layout .............................................................................................................................................. 4
4 Schematics ............................................................................................................................................... 10
5 Bill of Materials ......................................................................................................................................... 12
List of Figures
1 DRIVECABLE04-TX and DRIVECABLE04-RX ......................................................................................... 2
2 TOP Layer for DRIVECABLE04-TX and DRIVECABLE04-RX ................................................................. 4
3 GND1 Layer for DRIVECABLE04-TX and DRIVECABLE04-RX .............................................................. 5
4 GND2 Layer for DRIVECABLE04-TX and DRIVECABLE04-RX .............................................................. 6
5 VCC Layer for DRIVECABLE04-TX and DRIVECABLE04-RX ................................................................. 7
6 GND3 Layer for DRIVECABLE04-TX and DRIVECABLE04-R ................................................................. 8
7 BOTTOM Layer for DRIVECABLE04-TX and DRIVECABLE04-RX ......................................................... 9
8 DRIVECABLE04-TX Schematic .............................................................................................................. 10
9 DRIVECABLE04-RX Schematic .............................................................................................................. 11
List of Tables
1 EVK Contents ............................................................................................................................................ 1
2 DRIVECABLE04-TX Bill of Materials ...................................................................................................... 12
3 DRIVECABLE04-RX Bill of Materials ...................................................................................................... 12
1. Introduction
The Texas Instruments DRIVECABLE04EVK evaluation kit (EVK) helps designers evaluate the operation and
performance of the cable extender chipset consisting of the DS30EA101 adaptive cable equalizer and the
DS30BA101 differential buffer. The kit enables evaluation of this chipset with 75 coaxial cables.
The EVK includes separate evaluation boards for the two devices – one board for the transmitter and the
other board for the receiver (see Table 1 and Figure 1).
Table 1: EVK Contents
EVALUATION BOARD
IC
FUNCTION
DRIVECABLE04-TX
DS30BA101
Cable Driver (Transmitter)
DRIVECABLE04-RX
DS30EA101
Cable Equalizer (Receiver)