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9.15. PHY for PCIe (PIPE) Dynamic Reconfiguration
For Stratix V devices, each channel and each TX PLL have separate dynamic reconfiguration interfaces. The MegaWizard Plug-In Manager provides informational messages on the connectivity of these interfaces. The following example shows the messages for a 8-channel PHY IP Core for PCI Express (PIPE).
Although you must initially create a separate reconfiguration interface for each channel and TX PLL in your design, when the Intel® Quartus® Prime software compiles your design, it reduces the total number of reconfiguration interfaces by merging reconfiguration interfaces. The synthesized design typically includes a reconfiguration interface for at least three channels because the three channels within each transceiver triplet share a single physical Avalon-MM slave interface which connects to the Transceiver Reconfiguration Controller IP Core. Conversely, you cannot connect the three channels that share this single physical Avalon-MM interface to different Transceiver Reconfiguration Controllers. Doing so causes a Fitter error. For more information, refer to“Transceiver Reconfiguration Controller to PHY IP Connectivity”.
Informational Messages for the Transceiver Reconfiguration Interface
PHY IP will require 9 reconfiguration interfaces for connection to the external reconfiguration controller.
Reconfiguration interface offsets 0-7 are connected to the transceiver channels.
Reconfiguration interface offset 8 is connected to the transmit PLL.
The reconfiguration interface uses the Avalon-MM PHY Management interface clock.
Signal Name | Direction | Description |
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reconfig_to_xcvr [<r>70-1:0] | Input | Reconfiguration signals from the Transceiver Reconfiguration Controller. <r> grows linearly with the number of reconfiguration interfaces. |
reconfig_from_xcvr [<r>46-1:0] | Output | Reconfiguration signals to the Transceiver Reconfiguration Controller. <r> grows linearly with the number of reconfiguration interfaces. |