Article ID: 000083194 Content Type: Troubleshooting Last Reviewed: 08/14/2018

Why does the Intel® Arria® 10 PCIe* Hard IP fail to set the pattern lock bit when receiving a modified compliance pattern during the LTSSM=Polling Compliance state?

Environment

    Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
    Intel® Arria® 10 Cyclone® 10 Hard IP for PCI Express
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Critical Issue

Description

According to PCIe* spec, when a PCIe* RootPort or EndPoint is in the LTSSM polling compliance state, it should set the pattern lock bit in data transmitted when it receives the modified compliance pattern and locks to the pattern.

Due to a bug in the Intel® Arria® 10 PCIe* Hard IP, it will never lock to the modified compliance pattern.  The Intel® Arria® 10 PCIe* Hard IP requires the data pattern 4a_bc_b5_bc {K28.5, D10.2, K28.5, D21.5 } to be one of the following sequence:

1. bc_4a_b5_bc {K28.5, D10.2, D21.5, K28.5 }

2. bc_bc_4a_b5 {K28.5, K28.5, D10.2, D21.5 }

3. b5_bc_bc_4a {D21.5, K28.5, K28.5, D10.2 }

4. 4a_b5_bc_bc {D10.2, D21.5, K28.5, K28.5 }

Resolution

No workaround for this problem exists. The user application should be aware of the limitation and take care of this scenarios.

This problem will not be fixed in a future release of the Intel® Quartus® Prime software.

Related Products

This article applies to 5 products

Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs
Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA
Intel® Arria® 10 GT FPGA
Intel® Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA
Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX FPGA

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