F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. About the F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP User Guide 2. About this IP 3. Getting Started 4. F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP Parameters 5. Functional Description 6. Reset 7. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions 8. Control, Status, and Statistics Register Descriptions 9. Document Revision History for the F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
2. About this IP x
2.1. Release Information 2.2. Features 2.3. Device Family Support
3. Getting Started x
3.1. Installing and Licensing Intel FPGA IP Cores 3.2. Specifying the IP Core Parameters and Options 3.3. Simulating the IP Core 3.4. Generated File Structure 3.5. Integrating Your IP Core in Your Design 3.6. Compiling the Full Design and Programming the FPGA
3.1. Installing and Licensing Intel FPGA IP Cores x
3.1.1. Intel FPGA IP Evaluation Mode
3.5. Integrating Your IP Core in Your Design x
3.5.1. Pin Assignments 3.5.2. Adding the F-Tile Reference and System PLL Clocks Intel FPGA IP 3.5.3. Placement Settings for the 100G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core
4. F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP Parameters x
4.1. Main Tab Options 4.2. Analog Parameter Tab Options
5. Functional Description x
5.1. F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP Functional Description 5.2. User Interface to Ethernet Transmission
5.1. F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP Functional Description x
5.1.1. F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP TX MAC Datapath 5.1.2. 100 GbE TX PCS 5.1.3. F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP Core RX MAC Datapath 5.1.4. Link Fault Signaling Interface 5.1.5. 100 GbE RX PCS 5.1.6. Flow Control
5.1.1. F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP TX MAC Datapath x
5.1.1.1. Frame Padding 5.1.1.2. Preamble Insertion 5.1.1.3. Inter-Packet Gap Generation and Insertion 5.1.1.4. Frame Check Sequence (CRC32) Insertion
5.1.3. F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP Core RX MAC Datapath x
5.1.3.1. IP Core Preamble Processing 5.1.3.2. IP Core Malformed Packet Handling 5.1.3.3. Length/Type Field Processing
5.1.3.3. Length/Type Field Processing x
5.1.3.3.1. Length Checking 5.1.3.3.2. RX CRC Checking and Dynamic Forwarding
5.1.6. Flow Control x
5.1.6.1. TX Pause/PFC Flow Control Frame Transmission Request 5.1.6.2. XON/XOFF Pause Frames
5.2. User Interface to Ethernet Transmission x
5.2.1. Order of Transmission 5.2.2. Bit Order For TX and RX Datapaths
7. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions x
7.1. TX MAC Interface to User Logic 7.2. RX MAC Interface to User Logic 7.3. Transceivers 7.4. Transceiver Reconfiguration Signals 7.5. Avalon Memory-Mapped Management Interface 7.6. Miscellaneous Status and Debug Signals 7.7. Flow Control Signals 7.8. Clock Signals 7.9. Reset Signals
8. Control, Status, and Statistics Register Descriptions x
8.1. TX MAC Registers 8.2. RX MAC Registers 8.3. Pause/PFC Flow Control Registers 8.4. Statistics Registers 8.5. Hard IP Registers
8.4. Statistics Registers x
8.4.1. Statistics Registers
1. About the F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
2. About this IP
3. Getting Started
4. F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP Parameters
5. Functional Description
6. Reset
7. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions
8. Control, Status, and Statistics Register Descriptions
9. Document Revision History for the F-Tile Low Latency 100G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

7.2. RX MAC Interface to User Logic

The user interface for the MAC receive direction is an Avalon® streaming interface. A valid FCS for a packet results in l8_rx_error bit 1 being low when l8_rx_endofpacket is high. An FCS violation is indicated when l8_rx_error bit 1 is high when l8_rx_endofpacket is high.
Table 10.   Avalon® Streaming RX Datapath All interface signals are clocked by the clk_rxmac clock.
Signal Direction Description
clk_rxmac Output rx_pcs_ready is asserted. The frequency of this clock is 390.625 MHz.
Note: All RX MAC interface signals are synchronous to clk_rxmac.
l8_rx_data[511:0] Output

Data output from the MAC. Bit[511] is the MSB and bit[0] is the LSB. Bytes are read in the usual left to right order. The IP core reverses the byte order to meet the requirements of the Ethernet standard.Clock for the RX MAC. Recovered from the incoming data. This clock is guaranteed stable when nullnull.

l8_rx_preamble[63:0] Output Received Preamble data. Valid when l8_rx_startofpacket is asserted and in preamble pass-through mode.
l8_rx_valid Output When asserted, indicates that l8_rx_data[63:0] is driving valid data. When this signal is low,l1_rx_data, l1_rx_startofpocket, l1_rx_endofpacket, l1_rx_empty, and l1_rx_error are ignored.
l8_rx_startofpacket Output When asserted, indicates the first byte of a frame.
l8_rx_endofpacket Output When asserted, indicates the last data byte of a frame before the frame check sequence (FCS). In CRC pass-through mode, it is the last byte of the FCS. The packet can end at any byte position.
l8_rx_empty[5:0] Output Specifies the number of empty bytes when l8_rx_endofpacket is asserted.

The packet can end at any byte position. The empty bytes are the low-order bytes.
l8_rx_error[5:0] Output

When asserted in the same cycle as l8_rx_endofpacket, indicates the current packet should be treated as an error packet. The 6 bits of l8_rx_error specify the following errors:

  • l8_rx_error[5]: Unused.
  • l8_rx_error[4]: Payload length error. If the length field is <1535 bytes (0x600 bytes), the received payload length is less than what is advertised in the payload length field.
  • l8_rx_error[3]: Oversized frame. The frame size is greater than the value specified in the MAX_RX_SIZE_CONFIG register.
  • l8_rx_error[2]: Undersized frame – The frame size is less than 64 bytes. Frame size = header size + payload size.
  • l8_rx_error[1]: CRC Error. The computed CRC value differs from the received CRC.
  • l8_rx_error[0]: Malformed packet. The packet is terminated with a non-terminate control character. When this bit is asserted, l8_rx_error[1] is also asserted.
l8_rxstatus_valid Output When asserted, indicates that l8_rxstatus_data is driving valid data.
l8_rxstatus_data[39:0] Output

Specifies information about the received frame. The following fields are defined:

  • Bit[39]: When asserted, indicates a PFC frame
  • Bit[38]: When asserted, indicates a unicast frame
  • Bit[37]: When asserted, indicates a multicast frame
  • Bit[36]: When asserted, indicates a broadcast frame
  • Bit[35]: When asserted, indicates a pause frame
  • Bit[34]: When asserted, indicates a control frame
  • Bit[33]: When asserted, indicates a VLAN frame
  • Bit[32]: When asserted, indicates a stacked VLAN frame
  • Bits[31:16]: Specifies the frame length from the first byte of the destination address to the last bye of the FCS
  • Bits[15:0]: Specifies the payload length
pause_receive_rx[FCQN-1:0] Output This signal is available if you turn on Enable flow control in the parameter editor. Each bit of pause_receive_rx[FCQN-1:0] indicates that the corresponding queue is being paused.
Figure 21.  100G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP MAC to Client Avalon® Streaming Interface l8_rx_data reception order is highest byte to lowest byte. The first byte of the destination address is on l8_rx_data[63:56] , 0xfbe4 . . . in this timing diagram.
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