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sinara-hw / Sayma_AMC

AMC FPGA carrier board with FMC, dual SFP and RTM
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purpose of USB console switch #38

Closed sbourdeauducq closed 5 years ago

sbourdeauducq commented 5 years ago

What is the purpose of the "USB console switch" IC4?

gkasprow commented 5 years ago

well, it made sense when MMC had access to Ethernet. Now we can scrap it. In AFCZ we found it very useful when operating in the singe-AMC box but MMC has Ethernet access and we can run UART over IP.