V-Series Transceiver PHY IP Core User Guide

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Date 7/26/2022
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7.12. XAUI PHY Data Interfaces

The XAUI PCS interface to the FPGA fabric uses a SDR XGMII interface. This interface implements a simple version of Avalon-ST protocol. The interface does not include ready or valid signals; consequently, the sources always drive data and the sinks must always be ready to receive data.

For more information about the Avalon-ST protocol, including timing diagrams, refer to the Avalon Interface Specifications.

Depending on the parameters you choose, the application interface runs at either 156.25 Mbps or 312.5 Mbps. At either frequency, data is only driven on the rising edge of clock. To meet the bandwidth requirements, the datapath is eight bytes wide with eight control bits, instead of the standard four bytes of data and four bits of control. The XAUI IP Core treats the datapath as two, 32-bit data buses and includes logic to interleave them, starting with the low-order bytes.

Figure 40. Interleaved SDR XGMII Data Mapping

For the DDR XAUI variant, the start of control character (0xFB) is aligned to either byte 0 or byte 5.

Figure 41. Byte 0 Start of Frame Transmission Example
Figure 42. Byte 5 Start of Frame Transmission Example