Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

ID 683655
Date 2/10/2023
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1. About the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

Updated for:
Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Suite 22.4
IP Version 4.0.0

This document describes IP features, architecture description, steps to generate, and guidelines to design the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP using the E-tile transceivers in Intel® Stratix® 10 (TX and MX series) and Intel® Agilex™ (F-series) devices.

Intended Audience

This document is intended for the following users:
  • Design architects to make IP selection during the system-level design planning phase
  • Hardware designers when integrating the IP into their system-level design
  • Validation engineers during the system-level simulation and hardware validation phases

Related Documents

The following table lists other reference documents that are related to the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP.
Table 1.  Related Documents
Reference Description
Serial Lite IV Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA IP Design Example User Guide This document provides generation, usage guidelines, and functional description of the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP design examples in Intel® Stratix® 10 devices.
Serial Lite IV Intel® Agilex™ FPGA IP Design Example User Guide This document provides generation, usage guidelines, and functional description of the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP design examples in Intel® Agilex™ devices.
E-tile Hard IP User Guide: E-tile Hard IP for Ethernet and E-Tile CPRI PHY Intel® FPGA IPs

This document describes the features, functionality, and guidelines of the E-Tile Hard IP for Ethernet and E-Tile CPRI PHY Intel® FPGA IPs in Intel® Stratix® 10 devices.

Intel® Stratix® 10 Device Data Sheet

This document describes the electrical characteristics, switching characteristics, configuration specifications, and timing for Intel® Stratix® 10 devices.

Intel® Agilex™ Device Data Sheet

This document describes the electrical characteristics, switching characteristics, configuration specifications, and timing for Intel® Agilex™ devices.

E-Tile Transceiver PHY User Guide

This document describes the features, functionality, and guidelines of the E-tile transceiver PHY in Intel® Stratix® 10 devices.

Acronyms and Glossary

Table 2.  Acronym List
Acronym Expansion
CW Control Word
RS-FEC Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction
PMA Physical Medium Attachment
TX Transmitter
RX Receiver
PAM4 Pulse-Amplitude Modulation 4-Level
NRZ Non-return-to-zero
PCS Physical Coding Sublayer
MII Media Independent Interface
XGMII 10 Gigabit Media Independent Interface