JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 2/10/2023
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2. Overview of the JESD204C Intel FPGA IP

The JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP is a high-speed point-to-point serial interface for digital-to-analog (DAC) or analog-to-digital (ADC) converters to transfer data to FPGA devices. This unidirectional serial interface runs at a maximum data rate of 28.9 Gbps. This protocol offers higher bandwidth, low I/O count and supports scalability in both number of lanes and data rates.

The JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP addresses multidevice synchronization using Subclass 1 to achieve deterministic latency.

The JESD204C Intel® FPGA IP supports TX-only, RX-only, and Duplex (TX and RX) mode. The Intel® FPGA IP is a unidirectional protocol where interfacing to ADC utilizes the transceiver RX path and interfacing to DAC utilizes the transceiver TX path.

The Intel® FPGA IP incorporates:

  • Media access control (MAC)—data link layer (DLL) and transport layer (TL) blocks that control the link states.
  • Physical layer (PHY)—physical coding sublayer (PCS) and physical media attachment (PMA) block.

The transport layer (TL) in the MAC controls the assembling and disassembling of the frames.

Figure 1.  JESD204C Duplex Functional Block Diagram
Figure 2.  JESD204C TX-only Functional Block Diagram
Figure 3.  JESD204C RX-only Functional Block Diagram