Arria® 10 Transceiver PHY User Guide

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Date 4/01/2024
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2.5.2. Interlaken Configuration Clocking and Bonding

The Arria 10 Interlaken PHY layer solution is scalable and has flexible data rates. You can implement a single lane link or bond up to 48 lanes together. You can choose a lane data rate up to 17.4 Gbps for GX devices and 25.8 Gbps for GT devices. You can also choose between different reference clock frequencies, depending on the PLL used to clock the transceiver. Refer to the Arria 10 Device Datasheet for the minimum and maximum data rates that Arria 10 transceivers can support at different speed grades.

You can use an ATX PLL or fPLL to provide the clock for the transmit channel. An ATX PLL has better jitter performance compared to an fPLL. You can use the CMU PLL to clock only the non-bonded Interlaken transmit channels. However, if you use the CMU PLL, you lose one RX transceiver channel.

For the multi-lane Interlaken interface, TX channels are usually bonded together to minimize the transmit skew between all bonded channels. Currently, xN bonding and PLL feedback compensation bonding schemes are available to support a multi-lane Interlaken implementation. If the system tolerates higher channel-to-channel skew, you can choose to not bond the TX channels.

To implement bonded multi-channel Interlaken, all channels must be placed contiguously. The channels may all be placed in one bank (if not greater than six lanes) or they may span several banks.