Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 5/10/2025
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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

1. About the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

Updated for:
Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Suite 25.1
IP Version 5.5.2

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 Stratix® 10 (TX and MX series) and Agilex™ 7 (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 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 Stratix® 10 devices.
Serial Lite IV Agilex™ 7 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 Agilex™ 7 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 Stratix® 10 devices.

Stratix® 10 Device Data Sheet

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

Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs Device Data Sheet: F-Series and I-Series

This document describes the electrical characteristics, switching characteristics, configuration specifications, and timing for Agilex™ 7 devices.

E-Tile Transceiver PHY User Guide

This document describes the features, functionality, and guidelines of the E-tile transceiver PHY in 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
Level Two Title