Agilex™ 7 FPGA – PAM4 8x53Gbps with QSFPDD Serial Loopback on the Nios® V/m Processor Design Example

Agilex™ 7 FPGA – PAM4 8x53Gbps with QSFPDD Serial Loopback on the Nios® V/m Processor Design Example

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5/11/2023

Introduction

This design demonstrates the serial loopback via QSFPDD function on the Intel Agilex® 7 FPGA F-Series Development Kit (2x F-Tile).

Design Details

Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition

Quartus Version

23.1

Other Tags

Validated in Quartus and Board

IP Cores (4)
IP Core IP Core Category
F-Tile PMA/FEC Direct PHY Intel FPGA IP Transceiver PHY
Mailbox Client Intel FPGA IP Configuration and Programming
Nios V/m Processor Intel FPGA IP Embedded Processors
F-Tile Reference and System PLL Clocks Intel FPGA IP Transceiver PHY

Detailed Description

Uses Intel Agilex® 7 FPGA F-Series Development Kit (2x F-Tile) as platform for demonstration.

Uses 2 Native PHY’s with each 4 independent physical lanes connected to QSFPDD0 and QSFPDD1 and each channel configured in RSFEC53Gpbs PAM4 using 8 FGT’s located in Quad 3 and Quad 1.

Design Details

Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition

Quartus Version

23.1

Other Tags

Validated in Quartus and Board