Embedded Peripherals IP User Guide

ID 683130
Date 10/24/2025
Public
Document Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Avalon® -ST Serial Peripheral Interface Core 3. SPI Core 4. SPI Agent/JTAG to Avalon® Host Bridge Cores 5. Intel eSPI Agent Core 6. eSPI to LPC Bridge Core 7. Ethernet MDIO Core 8. Intel FPGA 16550 Compatible UART Core 9. UART Core 10. Lightweight UART Core 11. JTAG UART Core 12. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mailbox Core 13. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mutex Core 14. Intel FPGA Avalon® I2C (Host) Core 15. Intel FPGA I2C Agent to Avalon® -MM Host Bridge Core 16. EPCS/EPCQA Serial Flash Controller Core 17. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller Core 18. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller II Core 19. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller Core 20. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller II Core 21. Interval Timer Core 22. Intel FPGA Avalon FIFO Memory Core 23. On-Chip Memory (RAM and ROM) Intel FPGA IP 24. On-Chip Memory II (RAM or ROM) Intel FPGA IP 25. PIO Core 26. PLL Cores 27. DMA Controller Core 28. Modular Scatter-Gather DMA Core 29. Scatter-Gather DMA Controller Core 30. Video Sync Generator and Pixel Converter Cores 31. Intel FPGA Interrupt Latency Counter Core 32. Performance Counter Unit Core 33. Vectored Interrupt Controller Core 34. System ID Peripheral Core 35. Intel FPGA GMII to RGMII Converter Core 36. HPS GMII to RGMII Adapter IP 37. Intel FPGA MII to RMII Converter Core 38. HPS GMII to TSE 1000BASE-X/SGMII PCS Bridge Core IP 39. Intel FPGA HPS EMAC to Multi-rate PHY GMII Adapter Core 40. Intel FPGA MSI to GIC Generator Core 41. Cache Coherency Translator IP 42. Altera ACE5-Lite Cache Coherency Translator

39.2. Functional Description

The following diagram illustrates the system level connection of Intel FPGA HPS EMAC to Multi-rate PHY GMII Adapter core.
Figure 168. Block Diagram
The I/O PLL derives three clocks with frequency 125MHz, 25MHz, and 2.5MHz. The HPS EMAC Interface Splitter Intel IP core splits the EMAC conduit interface output from HPS into several interface signals according to their functions.
The Ethernet operation allows dynamic speed mode changes. During GMII to MII or MII to GMII mode transition, there is a possibility that the transmit clock from HPS clock source and PCS block are out of sync in terms of clock frequency which may cause an overflow/underflow situation. To avoid an overflow/underflow situation, use the TX_DISABLE register bit to disable the datapath during the change in speed configuration of the PCS and MAC.
Table 536.   Avalon® Memory-Mapped Interface Agent Interface
Configuration Values
Bus width 32-bit
Burst support No
Fixed read and write wait time 0 cycle
Fixed read latency 1 cycle
Lock support No