Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP Core User Guide: For Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices

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Date 2/16/2022
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4.3.1. Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core Preamble Processing

The preamble sequence is Start, six preamble bytes, and SFD. The Start byte must be on receive lane 0 (most significant byte). The IP core uses the Start byte (0xFB) to identify the preamble. The MAC RX looks for the Start, six preamble bytes and SFD, depending on the strict SFD checking settings of the IP core.

By default, the MAC RX removes all Start, SFD, preamble, and IPG bytes from accepted frames. However, if you turn on Enable preamble passthrough in the Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel FPGA parameter editor, the MAC RX does not remove the eight-byte preamble sequence.