H-Tile Hard IP Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP User Guide: Stratix® 10 Devices

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Date 4/09/2024
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4.2.2.2. H-Tile Hard IP for Ethernet IP Core Preamble Processing

The preamble sequence is Start, six preamble bytes, and SFD. The Start byte must be on receive lane 0 of the MII, which means byte [7:0] of the data decoded from a 66b block. The IP core uses the Start Control byte (0xFB, with the corresponding MII control bit set to 1) to identify the start of the Ethernet packet, and the location of 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 H-Tile Hard IP for Ethernet IP parameter editor, the MAC RX does not remove the eight-byte preamble sequence.