F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. About the F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide 2. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview 3. Getting Started 4. Functional Description 5. Parameters 6. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals 7. Control and Status Registers 8. Designing with F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP 9. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives 10. Document Revision History for the F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
2. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview x
2.1. Release Information 2.2. Supported Features 2.3. IP Version Support Level 2.4. Device Speed Grade Support 2.5. Resource Utilization and Latency 2.6. Bandwidth Efficiency
3. Getting Started x
3.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores 3.2. Specifying the IP Parameters and Options 3.3. Generated File Structure 3.4. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores 3.5. Synthesizing IP Cores in Other EDA Tools 3.6. Compiling the Full Design
3.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
3.1.1. Intel® FPGA IP Evaluation Mode
3.4. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
3.4.1. Simulating and Verifying the Design
4. Functional Description x
4.1. TX Datapath 4.2. RX Datapath 4.3. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Clock Architecture 4.4. Reset and Link Initialization 4.5. Link Rate and Bandwidth Efficiency Calculation 4.6. 32-bit Soft CWBIN Counters 4.7. i_stats_snapshot Port
4.1. TX Datapath x
4.1.1. TX MAC Adapter 4.1.2. Control Word (CW) Insertion 4.1.3. TX CRC 4.1.4. TX MII Encoder 4.1.5. TX PCS and PMA
4.1.2. Control Word (CW) Insertion x
4.1.2.1. Start-of-burst CW 4.1.2.2. End-of-burst CW 4.1.2.3. Alignment Paired CW 4.1.2.4. Empty-cycle CW 4.1.2.5. Idle CW 4.1.2.6. Data Word
4.2. RX Datapath x
4.2.1. RX PCS and PMA 4.2.2. RX MII Decoder 4.2.3. RX CRC 4.2.4. RX Deskew 4.2.5. RX CW Removal
4.4. Reset and Link Initialization x
4.4.1. TX Reset and Initialization Sequence 4.4.2. RX Reset and Initialization Sequence
6. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals x
6.1. Clock Signals 6.2. Reset Signals 6.3. MAC Signals 6.4. Transceiver Reconfiguration Signals 6.5. PMA Signals
7. Control and Status Registers x
7.1. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Soft CSR
8. Designing with F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP x
8.1. Reset Guidelines 8.2. Error Handling Guidelines 8.3. Analog Parameter Settings
1. About the F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
2. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview
3. Getting Started
4. Functional Description
5. Parameters
6. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals
7. Control and Status Registers
8. Designing with F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP
9. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives
10. Document Revision History for the F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

2. F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview

F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP is suitable for high bandwidth data communication for chip-to-chip, board-to-board, and backplane applications.

The F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP incorporates media access control (MAC), physical coding sublayer (PCS), and physical media attachment (PMA) blocks.

The IP supports data transfer speeds of:.
  • Up to 116 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 4 lanes for PAM4 mode FHT transceiver.
  • Up to 58 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 12 lanes for PAM4 mode FGT transceiver.
  • Up to 58 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 4 lanes for NRZ mode FHT transceiver.
  • Up to 32 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 16 lanes for NRZ mode FGT transceiver.

This IP offers high bandwidth, low overhead frames, low I/O count, and supports high scalability in both numbers of lanes and speed. This IP is also easily reconfigurable with support of a wide range of data rates with Ethernet PCS mode of the F-Tile transceiver.

This IP supports two transmission modes:
  • Basic mode—This is a pure streaming mode where data is sent without the start-of-packet, empty cycle, and end-of-packet to increase bandwidth. The IP takes the first valid data as the start of a burst.
  • Full mode—This is a packet transfer mode. In this mode, the IP sends a burst and a sync cycle at the start and end of a packet as delimiters.
Figure 1.  F-Tile Serial Lite IV High Level Block Diagram

You can generate F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP design examples to learn more about the IP features. Refer to F-Tile Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Design Example User Guide.


Section Content
Release Information
Supported Features
IP Version Support Level
Device Speed Grade Support
Resource Utilization and Latency
Bandwidth Efficiency

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