Intel® Agilex™ General-Purpose I/O and LVDS SERDES User Guide

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Date 10/29/2021
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1.1. Intel® Agilex™ I/O and Differential I/O Buffers

The I/O bank within the GPIO interface supports differential and single-ended I/O standards. The GPIO bank has true differential I/O buffer pairs using the True Differential Signaling I/O standard, which is compatible with the LVDS, RSDS, Mini-LVDS, and LVPECL I/O standards. One true differential buffer pair forms a true differential channel.

When using SERDES, half of the true differential buffers support dedicated transmitter channels and the other half support dedicated true receiver channels. When SERDES is not used, you can configure any of the true differential buffers to transmitter or receiver channels. Refer to the device pin-out files for locations of the dedicated receiver and transmitter channels.

Differential voltage referenced output pins are not true differential output pins. The differential voltage referenced I/O standards use two single-ended output pins where one of the output pins is inverted.

The I/O bank within the HPS and SDM interfaces supports single-ended IO standards.

Intel® Agilex™ devices use different power supplies to power I/O buffers for different interfaces:

  • VCCIO_PIO and VCCPT power the I/O buffers located in the I/O bank within the GPIO interface.
  • VCCIO_SDM powers the I/O buffers located in the I/O bank within the SDM I/O interface.
  • VCCIO_HPS powers the I/O buffers located in the HPS I/O bank within the HPS I/O interface.

Each I/O bank within the interface has its own VCCIO power supply and supports only one VCCIO voltage. The supported I/O standards vary between interfaces. Refer to Supported I/O Standards for the list of I/O standards supported by each I/O interface.