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

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Date 8/14/2025
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Document Table of Contents x
1. About the F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide 2. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview 3. Getting Started 4. Functional Description 5. Parameters 6. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals 7. Control and Status Registers 8. Designing with F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP 9. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives 10. Document Revision History for the F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
2. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview x
2.1. Release Information 2.2. Supported Features 2.3. IP Version Support Level 2.4. Device Speed Grade Support 2.5. Resource Utilization and Latency 2.6. Bandwidth Efficiency
3. Getting Started x
3.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores 3.2. Specifying the IP Parameters and Options 3.3. Generated File Structure 3.4. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores 3.5. Synthesizing IP Cores in Other EDA Tools 3.6. Compiling the Full Design
3.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
3.1.1. Altera FPGA IP Evaluation Mode
3.4. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
3.4.1. Simulating and Verifying the Design
4. Functional Description x
4.1. TX Datapath 4.2. RX Datapath 4.3. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Clock Architecture 4.4. Reset and Link Initialization 4.5. Link Rate and Bandwidth Efficiency Calculation 4.6. 32-bit Soft CWBIN Counters 4.7. i_stats_snapshot Port 4.8. Deterministic Latency
4.1. TX Datapath x
4.1.1. TX MAC Adapter 4.1.2. Control Word (CW) Insertion 4.1.3. TX CRC 4.1.4. TX MII Encoder 4.1.5. TX PCS and PMA
4.1.2. Control Word (CW) Insertion x
4.1.2.1. Start-of-burst CW 4.1.2.2. End-of-burst CW 4.1.2.3. Alignment Paired CW 4.1.2.4. Empty-cycle CW 4.1.2.5. Idle CW 4.1.2.6. Data Word
4.2. RX Datapath x
4.2.1. RX PCS and PMA 4.2.2. RX MII Decoder 4.2.3. RX CRC 4.2.4. RX Deskew 4.2.5. RX CW Removal
4.4. Reset and Link Initialization x
4.4.1. TX Reset and Initialization Sequence 4.4.2. RX Reset and Initialization Sequence
4.8. Deterministic Latency x
4.8.1. Deterministic Latency Top Wrapper
4.8.1. Deterministic Latency Top Wrapper x
4.8.1.1. TX DL Shim Wrapper 4.8.1.2. RX DL Shim Wrapper 4.8.1.3. Deterministic Latency Design Considerations
6. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals x
6.1. Clock Signals 6.2. Reset Signals 6.3. MAC Signals 6.4. Transceiver Reconfiguration Signals 6.5. PMA Signals
7. Control and Status Registers x
7.1. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Soft CSR
8. Designing with F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP x
8.1. Reset Guidelines 8.2. Error Handling Guidelines 8.3. Analog Parameter Settings
1. About the F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
2. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview
3. Getting Started
4. Functional Description
5. Parameters
6. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals
7. Control and Status Registers
8. Designing with F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP
9. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives
10. Document Revision History for the F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

1. About the F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

Updated for:
Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Suite 25.1.1
IP Version 9.7.0

This document describes IP features, architecture description, steps to generate, and guidelines to design the F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP using the F-Tile transceivers in Agilex™ 7 devices.

Intended Audience

This document is intended for the following users:
  • Design architects to make IP selection during the system-level design planning phase
  • Hardware designers when integrating the IP into their system-level design
  • Validation engineers during the system-level simulation and hardware validation phases

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Acronyms and Glossary

Table 1.  Acronym List
Acronym Expansion
CW Control Word
RS-FEC Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction
PMA Physical Medium Attachment
TX Transmitter
RX Receiver
PAM4 Pulse-Amplitude Modulation 4-Level
NRZ Non-return-to-zero
PCS Physical Coding Sublayer
MII Media Independent Interface
XGMII 10 Gigabit Media Independent Interface
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