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

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Date 10/02/2023
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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 116 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 4 lanes for PAM4 mode FHT transceiver.
  • Up to 58 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 12 lanes for PAM4 mode FGT transceiver.
  • Up to 58 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 4 lanes for NRZ mode FHT transceiver.
  • Up to 32 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 16 lanes for NRZ mode FGT transceiver.

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.