Ethernet Toolkit User Guide

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Date 11/20/2023
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3.1.5.5. AN and LT Status

The AN and LT features are supported for example and your custom designs in Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 23.3 onwards.
Note: Serial loopback is not supported for ANLT with FHT PMA.

To enable AN and LT along with Ethernet IP, select the Enable auto-negotiation and link training checkbox in the Ethernet Hard IP GUI.

To enable the Ethernet Toolkit for your custom design, you must enable the Enable AN/LT Debug Endpoint for Ethernet toolkit checkbox in the F-Tile Auto-Negotiation and Link Training for Ethernet Intel FPGA IP GUI as shown in the following figure.
Figure 20. Enable Ethernet Toolkit for F-Tile Auto-Negotiation and Link Training for Ethernet Intel FPGA IP

The Ethernet Toolkit displays AN/LT status in the IP Configuration and Other Information tab as shown in the figure below.

Figure 21.  IP Configuration and Other Information Tab
A new sub tab named AN/LT Status is added at the bottom of the Status tab displaying AN/LT features.
Figure 22. Status Tab for Ethernet Toolkit and AN/LT Status Sub Tab
The AN/LT Status section shown above contains a number of checkboxes as listed below.
  • Reset AN/LT Sequencer—Resets the AN/LT sequencer.
  • Ignore Nonce Field During AN—Needs to be selected when the F-tile is connected in loopback mode.
  • Disable Link Fail Timer—Disables the Link Fail Timer when selected.
  • Disable Max Wait Timer—Disables the Max Wait Timer when selected.
  • Refresh—Updates all the registers data when pressed.
  • KR Pause—Pauses the KR CPU when selected.
  • SEQ Force Mode—Not supported in the current Release.
The AN/LT Status tab contains 4 different tabs:
  1. AN/LT Status—Displays the register status information of both AN and LT, which includes the following:
    1. LT Status Per Lane (if design supports multi lanes)
    2. LP Base Page details
    3. LP Next Page details
    4. Information about the value of a few AN/ LT status registers
    Figure 23. AN/LT Status Tab
  2. AN/LT Config—This sub tab includes AN and LT configuration registers. which the user can enable or disable.
    1. Enable AN—Enables AN when selected; disables AN when unselected.
    2. AN Enabled—Displays whether AN is enabled or not.
    3. Enable LT—Enables LT when selected; disables LT when unselected.
    4. LT Enabled—Displays whether LT is enabled or not.
    5. Reset AN—Resets all state machines.
    Figure 24. AN/LT Config Tab
  3. Link Analysis—This sub tab is used for Link Analysis. It takes a csv file with Signal Tap data as an input and displays the time delta for different KR/ANLT states.
    1. You must tap the kr_debug_0 signal for the ANLT instances and ports from the signal tap analyzer tool.
    2. Convert the .STP file data into the csv format and save it into a file.
    3. You must upload the converted csv file into the tool and click the Start Analysis button.
    4. If the tool does not find the kr_debug_0 signal data from the csv file, then it displays the error Required Signals Not Found.
    5. Based on data in the csv file, the tool calculates the number of samples captured (iterations of AN/LT sequence) for each port and AN/LT instance.
    6. You can check the data for each sample by selecting the ANLT instance, port instance, and the sample (iteration) number from the dropdown menu options. You must press the Display Sample” button after selecting from the dropdown list.
    7. The tool shows the data for Auto_Neg states, Link_Training States, and Data Mode States.
    Figure 25. Link Analysis Tab
  4. Read Register—This sub tab is used to dump all available register data into a csv file.
    1. It reads the data from the board when users click on “Press to Export Reg Data”.
    2. The tool captures dynamic data.
    3. The csv file includes the Register Name, Bit Name, Bit Value, and Description of the Bit columns.
    4. Users must provide a csv file as an input into which data can be dumped.
    Figure 26. Read Register Tab
Table 2.  Sample Data from Dumped CSV File
Register Name Field Name Field Value Field Description
seq_cfg kr_pause 0
Pauses ANLT function
  • 1: ANLT function is paused when bit 0xB1[31] is high
  • 0: Normal ANLT function

Set this bit before accessing PMA registers via the transceiver reconfig interface to ensure no conflict with the ANLT function.