V-Series Transceiver PHY IP Core User Guide

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Date 7/26/2022
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16. Cyclone V Transceiver Native PHY IP Core Overview

The Cyclone V Transceiver Native PHY IP Core provides direct access to all control and status signals of the transceiver channels. Unlike other PHY IP Cores, the Native PHY IP Core does not include an Avalon Memory-Mapped (Avalon-MM) interface. Instead, it exposes all signals directly as ports. The Cyclone V Transceiver Native PHY IP Core includes the Standard PCS. You can select the PCS functions and control and status port that your transceiver PHY requires.

The Native Transceiver PHY does not include an embedded reset controller. You can either design custom reset logic or incorporate Altera’s “Transceiver PHY Reset Controller IP Core” to implement reset functionality.

As the following figure  illustrates, TX PLL and clock data recovery (CDR) reference clocks from the pins of the device are input to the PLL module and CDR logic. The Standard PCS drives TX parallel data and receives RX parallel data.

Figure 84. Cyclone Native Transceiver PHY IP Core

In a typical design, the separately instantiated Transceiver PHY Reset Controller drives reset signals to Native PHY and receives calibration and locked status signal from the Native PHY. The Native PHY reconfiguration buses connect the external Transceiver Reconfiguration Controller for calibration and dynamic reconfiguration of the channel and PLLs.

You specify the initial configuration when you parameterize the IP core. The Transceiver Native PHY IP Core connects to the “Transceiver Reconfiguration Controller IP Core” to dynamically change reference clocks, PLL connectivity, and the channel configurations at runtime.