Article ID: 000081395 Content Type: Troubleshooting Last Reviewed: 04/04/2023

Why does my Intel® Arria® 10, 10G Multi-Rate Ethernet PHY - Lineside IP fail timing between the MAC and PHY on the TX datapath?

Environment

  • Quartus® II Subscription Edition
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    Critical Issue

    Description

    When using the Intel® Arria® 10, 10G Multi-rate Ethernet PHY  - Lineside IP core, you may see hold timing violations for the data transfer from alt_mge16_phy_xcvr_term module to the Native PHY transceiver on the TX data path.

     

    Resolution

    To work around this issue, over-constrain the failing path by adding the following timing constraints into user's top level Synopsis Design Constraint(.sdc) file.

    if { [string equal "quartus_fit" $::TimeQuestInfo(nameofexecutable)] } {
        set_min_delay -from [get_registers *alt_mge16_phy_xcvr_term:*|*] -to [get_registers *twentynm_xcvr_native:*|twentynm_pcs_*] 0.3ns
    }

    Related Products

    This article applies to 3 products

    Intel® Arria® 10 GT FPGA
    Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA
    Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA