1. About the JESD204C Intel® Agilex™ FPGA IP Design Example User Guide
| Updated for: |
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| Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Suite 21.3 |
| IP Version 1.1.0 |
This user guide provides the features, usage guidelines, and detailed description about the design examples for the JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP using Intel® Agilex™ devices.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for:
- Design architect to make IP selection during system level design planning phase
- Hardware designers when integrating the IP into their system level design
- Validation engineers during system level simulation and hardware validation phase
Related Documents
The following table lists other reference documents which are related to the JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP.
| Reference | Description |
|---|---|
| F-Tile JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP User Guide | Provides information about the JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP. |
| F-Tile JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP Release Notes | Lists the changes made for the F-Tile JESD204C Intel FPGA IP in a particular release. |
| F-Tile JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP Design Example User Guide | Provides information about how to instantiate the F-Tile JESD204C design examples using Intel® Agilex™ F-Tile devices. |
| JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP User Guide | Provides information about the JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP. |
| JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP Release Notes | Lists the changes made for the JESD204C Intel FPGA IP in a particular release. |
| Intel® Agilex™ Device Data Sheet | This document describes the electrical characteristics, switching characteristics, configuration specifications, and timing for Intel® Agilex™ devices. |
Acronyms and Glossary
| Acronym | Expansion |
|---|---|
| LEMC | Local Extended Multiblock Clock |
| FC | Frame clock rate |
| ADC | Analog to Digital Converter |
| DAC | Digital to Analog Converter |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| TX | Transmitter |
| RX | Receiver |
| DLL | Data link layer |
| CSR | Control and status register |
| CRU | Clock and Reset Unit |
| ISR | Interrupt Service Routine |
| FIFO | First-In-First-Out |
| SERDES | Serializer Deserializer |
| ECC | Error Correcting Code |
| FEC | Forward Error Correction |
| SERR | Single Error Detection (in ECC, correctable) |
| DERR | Double Error Detection (in ECC, fatal) |
| PRBS | Pseudorandom binary sequence |
| MAC | Media Access Controller. MAC includes protocol sublayer, transport layer, and data link layer. |
| PHY | Physical Layer. PHY typically includes the physical layer, SERDES, drivers, receivers and CDR. |
| PCS | Physical Coding Sub-layer |
| PMA | Physical Medium Attachment |
| RBD | RX Buffer Delay |
| UI | Unit Interval = duration of serial bit |
| RBD count | RX Buffer Delay latest lane arrival |
| RBD offset | RX Buffer Delay release opportunity |
| SH | Sync header |
| TL | Transport layer |
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Converter Device | ADC or DAC converter |
| Logic Device | FPGA or ASIC |
| Octet | A group of 8 bits, serving as input to 64/66 encoder and output from the decoder |
| Nibble | A set of 4 bits which is the base working unit of JESD204C specifications |
| Block | A 66-bit symbol generated by the 64/66 encoding scheme |
| Link Clock | The associated parallel data is 128 bit/132 bit instead of 64 bit/66 bit. Link Clock = Lane Line Rate/132. |
| Frame | A set of consecutive octets in which the position of each octet can be identified by reference to a frame alignment signal. |
| Frame Clock | A system clock which runs at the frame's rate, that must be 1x, 2x, or 4x link clock. |
| Samples per frame clock | Samples per clock, the total samples in frame clock for the converter device. |
| LEMC | Internal clock used to align the boundary of the extended multiblocks between lanes and into the external references (SYSREF or Subclass 1). |
| Subclass 0 | No support for deterministic latency. Data should be immediately released upon lane to lane deskew on receiver. |
| Subclass 1 | Deterministic latency using SYSREF. |
| Multipoint Link | Inter-device links with 2 or more converter devices. |
| 64B/66B Encoding | Line code that maps 64-bit data to 66 bits to form a block. The base level data structure is a block that starts with 2-bit sync header. |
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| L | Number of lanes per converter device |
| M | Number of converters per device |
| F | Number of octets per frame on a single lane |
| S | Number of samples transmitted per single converter per frame cycle |
| N | Converter resolution |
| N’ | Total number of bits per sample in the user data format |
| CS | Number of control bits per conversion sample |
| CF | Number of control words per frame clock period per link |
| HD | High Density user data format |
| E | Number of multiblocks in an extended multiblock |