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7.6. XAUI PHY General Parameters
Name | Value | Description |
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Device family | Arria II GX Arria V Arria V GZ Cyclone IV GX Cyclone V HardCopy IV Stratix IV Stratix V |
The target device family. |
Starting channel number | 0-124 | The physical starting channel number in the Altera device for channel 0 of this XAUI PHY. In Arria II GX, Cyclone IV GX, HardCopy IV, and Stratix IV devices, this starting channel number must be 0 or a multiple of 4. In Arria V GZ and Stratix V devices, logical lane 0 should be assigned to either physical transceiver channel 1 or channel 4 of a transceiver bank. However, if you have already created a PCB with a different lane assignment for logical lane 0, you can use the workaound shown in Overriding Logical Lane 0 Channel Assignment Restrictions in Stratix V Devices to remove this restriction. Assignment of the starting channel number is required for serial transceiver dynamic reconfiguration. Check logical channel 0 restrictions in Cyclone 5 and Arria 5. |
XAUI interface type | Hard XAUI Soft XAUI DDR XAUII |
The following 3 interface types are available:
All interface types include 4 channels. |
Data rate | Device Dependent | Specifies the data rate. |
PLL type | CMU ATX |
You can select either the CMU or ATX PLL. The CMU PLL has a larger frequency range than the ATX PLL. The ATX PLL is designed to improve jitter performance and achieves lower channel-to-channel skew; however, it supports a narrower range of data rates and reference clock frequencies. Another advantage of the ATX PLL is that it does not use a transceiver channel, while the CMU PLL does. This parameter is available for the soft PCS and DDR XAUI. The ATX PLL is not available for all devices. |
Base data rate | 1 × Lane rate 2 × Lane rate 4 × Lane rate |
The base data rate is the frequency of the clock input to the PLL. Select a base data rate that minimizes the number of PLLs required to generate all the clock s required for data transmission. By selecting an appropriate base data rate, you can change data rates by changing the divider used by the clock generation block. This parameter is available for Stratix V devices. |
Number of XAUI interfaces | 1 | Specifies the number of XAUI interfaces. Only 1 is available in the current release. |
Overriding Logical Lane 0 Channel Assignment Restrictions in Stratix V Devices shows how to remove the restriction on logical lane 0 channel assignment in Stratix V devices by redefining the pma_bonding_master parameter using the Intel® Quartus® Prime Assignment Editor. In this example, the pma_bonding_master was originally assigned to physical channel 1. (The original assignment could also have been to physical channel 4.) The to parameter reassigns the pma_bonding_master to the XAUI instance name shown in quotation marks. You must substitute the instance name from your design for the instance name shown in quotation marks
Overriding Logical Lane 0 Channel Assignment Restrictions in Stratix V Devices
set_parameter -name pma_bonding_master "\"1\"" -to "<xaui instance name>|sv_xcvr_xaui:alt_xaui_phy|sv_xcvr_low_latency_phy_nr: alt_pma_0|sv_xcvr_custom_native:sv_xcvr_custom_inst|sv_xcvr_native: gen.sv_xcvr_native_insts[0].gen_bonded_group.sv_xcvr_native_inst"