Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon® Streaming with SR-IOV IP for PCIe* User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. Datasheet 2. Getting Started with the SR-IOV Design Example 3. Parameter Settings 4. Physical Layout 5. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions 6. Registers 7. Programming and Testing SR-IOV Bridge MSI Interrupts 8. Error Handling 9. IP Core Architecture 10. Design Implementation 11. Debugging 12. Document Revision History A. Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Header Formats B. Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon-ST with SR-IOV Interface for PCIe Solutions User Guide Archive
1. Datasheet x
1.1. Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon® -ST Interface with SR-IOV for PCI Express* Datasheet 1.2. Release Information 1.3. Device Family Support 1.4. Debug Features 1.5. IP Core Verification 1.6. Performance and Resource Utilization 1.7. Recommended Speed Grades for SR-IOV Interface
1.1. Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon® -ST Interface with SR-IOV for PCI Express* Datasheet x
1.1.1. SR-IOV Features
1.5. IP Core Verification x
1.5.1. Compatibility Testing Environment
2. Getting Started with the SR-IOV Design Example x
2.1. Directory Structure for Intel® Arria® 10 SR-IOV Design Example 2.2. Design Components for the SR-IOV Design Example 2.3. Generating the SR-IOV Design Example 2.4. Compiling and Simulating the Design for SR-IOV
3. Parameter Settings x
3.1. Parameters 3.2. Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon-ST Settings 3.3. Intel® Arria® 10 SR-IOV System Settings 3.4. Base Address Register (BAR) Settings 3.5. SR-IOV Device Identification Registers 3.6. Intel® Arria® 10 Interrupt Capabilities 3.7. Physical Function TLP Processing Hints (TPH) 3.8. Address Translation Services (ATS) 3.9. PCI Express and PCI Capabilities Parameters 3.10. PHY Characteristics 3.11. Example Designs
3.9. PCI Express and PCI Capabilities Parameters x
3.9.1. PCI Express and PCI Capabilities 3.9.2. Error Reporting 3.9.3. Link Capabilities 3.9.4. Slot Capabilities 3.9.5. Power Management
4. Physical Layout x
4.1. Hard IP Block Placement In Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Devices 4.2. Hard IP Block Placement In Intel® Arria® 10 Devices 4.3. Channel and Pin Placement for the Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3 Data Rates 4.4. Channel Placement and fPLL and ATX PLL Usage for the Gen3 Data Rate 4.5. PCI Express Gen3 Bank Usage Restrictions
5. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions x
5.1. Avalon-ST TX Interface 5.2. Component-Specific Avalon-ST Interface Signals 5.3. Avalon-ST RX Interface 5.4. BAR Hit Signals 5.5. Configuration Status Interface 5.6. Clock Signals 5.7. Function-Level Reset (FLR) Interface 5.8. SR-IOV Interrupt Interface 5.9. Configuration Extension Bus (CEB) Interface 5.10. Implementing MSI-X Interrupts 5.11. Control Shadow Interface 5.12. Local Management Interface (LMI) Signals 5.13. Reset, Status, and Link Training Signals 5.14. Hard IP Reconfiguration Interface 5.15. Serial Data Signals 5.16. Test Signals 5.17. PIPE Interface Signals 5.18. Intel® Arria® 10 Development Kit Conduit Interface
5.9. Configuration Extension Bus (CEB) Interface x
5.9.1. Vital Product Data (VPD) Capability
5.9.1. Vital Product Data (VPD) Capability x
5.9.1.1. Determine the Pointer Address of an External Capability Register 5.9.1.2. VPD Capability Implementation
6. Registers x
6.1. Addresses for Physical and Virtual Functions 6.2. Correspondence between Configuration Space Registers and the PCIe Specification 6.3. PCI and PCI Express Configuration Space Registers 6.4. MSI Registers 6.5. MSI-X Capability Structure 6.6. Power Management Capability Structure 6.7. PCI Express Capability Structure 6.8. Advanced Error Reporting (AER) Enhanced Capability Header Register 6.9. Uncorrectable Error Status Register 6.10. Uncorrectable Error Mask Register 6.11. Uncorrectable Error Severity Register 6.12. Correctable Error Status Register 6.13. Correctable Error Mask Register 6.14. Advanced Error Capabilities and Control Register 6.15. Header Log Registers 0-3 6.16. SR-IOV Virtualization Extended Capabilities Registers 6.17. Virtual Function Registers
6.3. PCI and PCI Express Configuration Space Registers x
6.3.1. Type 0 Configuration Space Registers 6.3.2. PCI and PCI Express Configuration Space Register Content 6.3.3. Interrupt Line and Interrupt Pin Register
6.16. SR-IOV Virtualization Extended Capabilities Registers x
6.16.1. SR-IOV Virtualization Extended Capabilities Registers Address Map 6.16.2. ARI Enhanced Capability Header 6.16.3. SR-IOV Enhanced Capability Registers 6.16.4. Initial VFs and Total VFs Registers 6.16.5. VF Device ID Register 6.16.6. Page Size Registers 6.16.7. VF Base Address Registers (BARs) 0-5 6.16.8. Secondary PCI Express Extended Capability Header 6.16.9. Lane Status Registers 6.16.10. Transaction Processing Hints (TPH) Requester Enhanced Capability Header
7. Programming and Testing SR-IOV Bridge MSI Interrupts x
7.1. Setting Up and Verifying MSI Interrupts 7.2. Masking MSI Interrupts 7.3. Dropping a Pending MSI Interrupt
8. Error Handling x
8.1. Physical Layer Errors 8.2. Data Link Layer Errors 8.3. Transaction Layer Errors 8.4. Error Reporting and Data Poisoning 8.5. Uncorrectable and Correctable Error Status Bits
9. IP Core Architecture x
9.1. PCI Express Protocol Stack 9.2. Data Link Layer 9.3. Physical Layer 9.4. Top-Level Interfaces 9.5. Intel® Arria® 10 Hard IP for PCI Express with Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
9.4. Top-Level Interfaces x
9.4.1. Avalon-ST Interface 9.4.2. Clocks and Reset 9.4.3. Interrupts 9.4.4. PIPE
10. Design Implementation x
10.1. Making Pin Assignments to Assign I/O Standard to Serial Data Pins 10.2. Recommended Reset Sequence to Avoid Link Training Issues 10.3. SDC Timing Constraints
11. Debugging x
11.1. Setting Up Simulation 11.2. Simulation Fails To Progress Beyond Polling.Active State 11.3. Hardware Bring-Up Issues 11.4. Link Training 11.5. Creating a Signal Tap Debug File to Match Your Design Hierarchy 11.6. Use Third-Party PCIe Analyzer 11.7. BIOS Enumeration Issues
11.1. Setting Up Simulation x
11.1.1. Changing Between Serial and PIPE Simulation 11.1.2. Using the PIPE Interface for Gen1 and Gen2 Variants 11.1.3. Viewing the Important PIPE Interface Signals 11.1.4. Disabling the Scrambler for Gen1 and Gen2 Simulations 11.1.5. Disabling 8B/10B Encoding and Decoding for Gen1 and Gen2 Simulations
12. Document Revision History x
12.1. Document Revision History for the Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon® Streaming with SR-IOV IP for PCIe* User Guide
A. Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Header Formats x
A.1. TLP Packet Formats without Data Payload A.2. TLP Packet Formats with Data Payload
1. Datasheet
2. Getting Started with the SR-IOV Design Example
3. Parameter Settings
4. Physical Layout
5. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions
6. Registers
7. Programming and Testing SR-IOV Bridge MSI Interrupts
8. Error Handling
9. IP Core Architecture
10. Design Implementation
11. Debugging
12. Document Revision History
A. Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Header Formats
B. Intel® Arria® 10 Avalon-ST with SR-IOV Interface for PCIe Solutions User Guide Archive

3.1. Parameters

This chapter provides a reference for all the parameters of the IP core.
Table 8.  Design Environment ParameterStarting in Intel® Quartus® Prime 18.0, there is a new parameter Design Environment in the parameters editor window.

Parameter

Value

Description

Design Environment

Standalone

System

Identifies the environment that the IP is in.

  • The Standalone environment refers to the IP being in a standalone state where all its interfaces are exported.
  • The System environment refers to the IP being instantiated in a Platform Designer system.
Table 9.  System Settings

Parameter

Value

Description

Application Interface Type

Avalon-ST

Avalon-MM

Avalon-MM with DMA

Avalon-ST with SR-IOV

Selects the interface to the Application Layer.

Note: When the Design Environment parameter is set to System, all four Application Interface Types are available. However, when Design Environment is set to Standalone, only Avalon-ST and Avalon-ST with SR-IOV are available.
Hard IP mode

Gen3x8, Interface: 256-bit, 250 MHz

Gen3x4, Interface: 256-bit, 125 MHz

Gen3x4, Interface: 128-bit, 250 MHz

Gen3x2, Interface: 128-bit, 125 MHz

Gen3x2, Interface: 64-bit, 250 MHz

Gen3x1, Interface: 64-bit, 125 MHz

Gen2x8, Interface: 256-bit, 125 MHz

Gen2x8, Interface: 128-bit, 250 MHz

Gen2x4, Interface: 128-bit, 125 MHz

Gen2x2, Interface: 64-bit, 125 MHz

Gen2x4, Interface: 64-bit, 250 MHz

Gen2x1, Interface: 64-bit, 125 MHz

Gen1x8, Interface: 128-bit, 125 MHz

Gen1x8, Interface: 64-bit, 250 MHz

Gen1x4, Interface: 64-bit, 125 MHz

Gen1x2, Interface: 64-bit, 125 MHz

Gen1x1, Interface: 64-bit, 125 MHz

Gen1x1, Interface: 64-bit, 62.5 MHz

Selects the following elements:

  • The lane data rate. Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3 are supported
  • The width of the data interface between the hard IP Transaction Layer and the Application Layer implemented in the FPGA fabric
  • The Application Layer interface frequency

Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX devices support up to Gen2 x4 configurations.

Port type

Native Endpoint

Root Port

Specifies the port type.

The Endpoint stores parameters in the Type 0 Configuration Space. The Root Port stores parameters in the Type 1 Configuration Space.

The Avalon-ST with SR-IOV interface supports only Native Endpoint operation.

You can enable the Root Port in the current release. Root Port mode only supports the Avalon® -MM interface type, and it only supports basic simulation and compilation. However, the Root Port mode is not fully verified.

RX Buffer credit allocation -performance for received requests

Minimum

Low

Balanced

Determines the allocation of posted header credits, posted data credits, non-posted header credits, completion header credits, and completion data credits in the 16 KB RX buffer. The settings allow you to adjust the credit allocation to optimize your system.

The credit allocation for the selected setting displays in the Message pane. The Message pane dynamically updates the number of credits for Posted, Non-Posted Headers and Data, and Completion Headers and Data as you change this selection.

Refer to the Throughput Optimization chapter for more information about optimizing your design.

Refer to the RX Buffer Allocation Selections Available by Interface Type below for the availability of these settings by interface type.

Minimum—configures the minimum PCIe specification allowed for non-posted and posted request credits, leaving most of the RX Buffer space for received completion header and data. Select this option for variations where application logic generates many read requests and only infrequently receives single requests from the PCIe link.

Low—configures a slightly larger amount of RX Buffer space for non-posted and posted request credits, but still dedicates most of the space for received completion header and data. Select this option for variations where application logic generates many read requests and infrequently receives small bursts of requests from the PCIe link. This option is recommended for typical endpoint applications where most of the PCIe traffic is generated by a DMA engine that is located in the endpoint application layer logic.

Balanced—configures approximately half the RX Buffer space to received requests and the other half of the RX Buffer space to received completions. Select this option for variations where the received requests and received completions are roughly equal.

RX Buffer completion credits

Header credits

Data credits

Displays the number of completion credits in the 16 KB RX buffer resulting from the credit allocation parameter. Each header credit is 16 bytes. Each data credit is 20 bytes.
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