Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 10/02/2023
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Document Table of Contents x
1. About the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide 2. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview 3. Functional Description 4. Getting Started 5. Parameters 6. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals 7. Designing with Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP 8. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Registers 9. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives 10. Document Revision History for the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
2. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview x
2.1. Release Information 2.2. Supported Features 2.3. IP Version Support Level 2.4. Device Speed Grade Support 2.5. Resource Utilization and Latency 2.6. Bandwidth Efficiency
3. Functional Description x
3.1. TX Datapath 3.2. RX Datapath 3.3. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Clock Architecture 3.4. Reset and Link Initialization 3.5. Link Rate and Bandwidth Efficiency Calculation
3.1. TX Datapath x
3.1.1. TX MAC Adapter 3.1.2. Control Word (CW) Insertion 3.1.3. TX CRC 3.1.4. TX MII Encoder 3.1.5. TX PCS and PMA
3.1.2. Control Word (CW) Insertion x
3.1.2.1. Start-of-burst CW 3.1.2.2. End-of-burst CW 3.1.2.3. Alignment Paired CW 3.1.2.4. Empty-cycle CW 3.1.2.5. Idle CW 3.1.2.6. Data Word
3.2. RX Datapath x
3.2.1. RX PCS and PMA 3.2.2. RX MII Decoder 3.2.3. RX CRC 3.2.4. RX Deskew 3.2.5. RX CW Removal
3.4. Reset and Link Initialization x
3.4.1. TX Reset and Initialization Sequence 3.4.2. RX Reset and Initialization Sequence 3.4.3. PMA Adaptation Flow
3.4.3. PMA Adaptation Flow x
3.4.3.1. Starting the PMA Adaptation Flow
4. Getting Started x
4.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores 4.2. Specifying the IP Parameters and Options 4.3. Generated File Structure 4.4. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores 4.5. Synthesizing IP Cores in Other EDA Tools 4.6. Compiling the Full Design
4.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
4.1.1. Intel® FPGA IP Evaluation Mode
4.4. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
4.4.1. Simulating and Verifying the Design
6. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals x
6.1. Clock Signals 6.2. Reset Signals 6.3. MAC Signals 6.4. Transceiver Reconfiguration Signals 6.5. PMA Signals
7. Designing with Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP x
7.1. Reset Guidelines 7.2. Error Handling Guidelines 7.3. E-Tile Channel Placement Tool
1. About the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
2. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview
3. Functional Description
4. Getting Started
5. Parameters
6. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals
7. Designing with Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP
8. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Registers
9. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives
10. Document Revision History for the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

3. Functional Description

Serial Lite IV Intel FPGA IP consists of MAC and custom PCS. The MAC communicates with the custom PCS through MII interfaces.

The IP supports two modulation modes:
  • PAM4—Provides 2, 4, 6, or 8 number of lanes for selection. A PCS block in PAM4 modulation mode contains four Ethernet channels. The IP always instantiates two PCS channels for each lane in PAM4 modulation mode.
  • NRZ—Provides 1 to 16 number of lanes for selection. In this modulation mode, each PCS block supports up to a maximum of four Ethernet channels.
Each modulation mode supports two data modes:
  • Basic mode—This is a pure streaming mode where data is sent without the start-of-packet, empty cycle, and end-of-packet to increase bandwidth. The IP takes the first valid data as the start of a burst.
    Figure 2. Basic Mode Data Transfer
  • Full mode—This is the packet mode data transfer. In this mode, the IP sends a burst and a sync cycle at the start and the end of a packet as delimiters.
    Figure 3. Full Mode Data Transfer

Section Content
TX Datapath
RX Datapath
Serial Lite IV Intel FPGA IP Clock Architecture
Reset and Link Initialization
Link Rate and Bandwidth Efficiency Calculation

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