V-Series Transceiver PHY IP Core User Guide

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Date 7/26/2022
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6.1. About the 1G/2.5G/5G/10G Multi-rate Ethernet PHY Intel® FPGA IP Core

The 1G/2.5G/5G/10G Multi-rate Ethernet PHY Intel® FPGA IP core implements the Ethernet protocol as defined in Clause 36 of the IEEE 802.3 2005 Standard. The PHY IP core consists of a physical coding sublayer (PCS) function and an embedded physical media attachment (PMA). You can dynamically switch the PHY operating speed.

Note: Intel FPGAs implement and support the required Media Access Control (MAC) and PHY (PCS+PMA) IP to interface in a chip-to-chip or chip-to-module channel with external MGBASE-T and NBASE-T PHY standard devices. You are required to use an external PHY device to drive any copper media.
Figure 34. Block Diagram of the PHY IP Core