Arria® 10 Transceiver PHY User Guide

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Date 4/01/2024
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2.6.6.9. XAUI PHY Interfaces

The XAUI PCS interface to the FPGA fabric uses a SDR XGMII interface. This interface implements a simple version of the Avalon-ST protocol. The interface does not include ready or valid signals. Consequently, the sources always drive data and the sinks must always be ready to receive data.

For more information about the Avalon-ST protocol, including timing diagrams, refer to the Avalon Interface Specifications.

Depending on the parameters you choose, the application interface runs at either 156.25 Mbps or 312.5 Mbps. At either frequency, data is only driven on the rising edge of clock. To meet the bandwidth requirements, the datapath is eight bytes wide with eight control bits, instead of the standard four bytes of data and four bits of control. The XAUI PHY IP core treats the datapath as two, 32-bit data buses and includes logic to interleave them, starting with the low-order bytes.

Figure 90. Interleaved SDR XGMII Data Mapping