F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 11/16/2021
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2. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview

F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP is suitable for high bandwidth data communication for chip-to-chip, board-to-board, and backplane applications.

The F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP incorporates media access control (MAC), physical coding sublayer (PCS), and physical media attachment (PMA) blocks. The IP supports data transfer speeds of up to 56 Gbps per lane with a maximum of four PAM4 lanes or 28 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 16 NRZ lanes. This IP offers high bandwidth, low overhead frames, low I/O count, and supports high scalability in both numbers of lanes and speed. This IP is also easily reconfigurable with support of a wide range of data rates with Ethernet PCS mode of the F-tile transceiver.

This IP supports two transmission modes:
  • Basic mode—This is a pure streaming mode where data is sent without the start-of-packet, empty cycle, and end-of-packet to increase bandwidth. The IP takes the first valid data as the start of a burst.
  • Full mode—This is a packet transfer mode. In this mode, the IP sends a burst and a sync cycle at the start and end of a packet as delimiters.
Figure 1.  F-Tile Serial Lite IV High Level Block Diagram

You can generate F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP design examples to learn more about the IP features. Refer to F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Design Example User Guide.