P-Tile Avalon® Streaming Intel® FPGA IP for PCI Express* User Guide

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Date 4/04/2024
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F.2.1. P-tile Dual-Endpoint System Configurations

The following table summarizes the dual-endpoint system configurations supported by P-tile:

Table 154.  Supported Dual-Endpoint System Configurations
Configuration Types REFCLK Source REFCLK Availability Port Connectivity
REFCLK0 REFCLK1 REFCLK0 REFCLK1 Port0 Port1
A Free-running 100MHz clock source 1 Free-running 100MHz clock source 2 During initial FPGA configuration During initial FPGA configuration Local SOC Host SOC
B Free-running 100MHz clock source 1 Free-running 100MHz clock source 2 During initial FPGA configuration During initial FPGA configuration Host SOC Local SOC
C Free-running 100MHz clock source 1 Free-running 100MHz clock source 1 During initial FPGA configuration During initial FPGA configuration Local SOC Host SOC
D Free-running 100MHz clock source 1 PCH During initial FPGA configuration May not be active during initial FPGA configuration Local SOC Host SOC

Supported System Configuration Type A: P-tile Port 0 and Port 1 with separate free-running clock sources. Both clocks are available during initial FPGA configuration. Port 0 is connected to a local SOC, Port 1 is connected to the Host.

Supported System Configuration Type B: P-tile Port 0 and Port 1 with separate free-running clock sources. Both clocks are available during initial FPGA configuration. Port 0 is connected to the Host, Port 1 is connected to a local SOC.

Supported System Configuration Type C: Host port is connected via SRIS or SRNS. P-tile port 0 and 1 use a common free-running local reference clock available during initial FPGA configuration. This is the preferred solution to support independent endpoint system integration.

Supported System Configuration Type D: Port 0 and Port 1 with separate refclk sources. Port 0 is connected to a local SOC, Port 1 is connected to the Host. The Local SOC/Port 0 refclk clock is an always available free-running clock source. The Host refclk is driven from PCH, which may lose power while the FPGA has power, or may not be powered up during the FPGA initial configuration. Note that P-tile expects the reference clock for Port 0 and Port 1 to remain active during subsequent warm reset assertions.

You must disable the IP Parameter Editor option Port 1 REFCLK init active for Type D configuration.

Note: P-tile expects the reference clock for Port 0 and Port 1 to remain active during the warm reset assertions following a global full reset.

Unsupported System Configuration Type E: Port 0 and Port 1 with separate refclk sources. Port 0 is connected to the Host, Port 1 is connected to a local SOC. The Local SOC/Port 1 refclk clock is an always available free-running clock source. The Host refclk is driven from PCH, which may lose power while the FPGA has power, or may not be powered up during the FPGA initial configuration. P-tile does NOT support this configuration.

Note that the PERST# inputs that come via GPIOs (like i_gpio_perst0_n and i_gpio_perst1_n) need to go through some debounce logic (to be implemented in user logic) before connecting to the P-tile Hard IP as shown in the figure below.