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4.5.1. HPS EMAC PHY Interfaces
- Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface (RGMII) using dedicated I/O
- Media Independent Interface (MII) interface to FPGA fabric
- Gigabit Media Independent Interface (GMII) interface to FPGA fabric
Any combination of supported PHY interface types can be configured across multiple HPS EMAC instances.
GUIDELINE: For RGMII using HPS Dedicated I/O, develop an early I/O floor-planning template design to ensure that there are enough HPS Dedicated I/O to accommodate the chosen PHY interfaces in addition to other HPS peripherals planned for HPS Dedicated I/O usage.
It is possible to adapt the MII/GMII PHY interfaces exposed to the FPGA fabric by the HPS component to other PHY interface standards—such as RMII, RGMII, SGMII, MII and GMII—by using soft adaptation logic in the FPGA and features in the general-purpose FPGA I/O and transceiver FPGA I/O.
GUIDELINE: When selecting a PHY device, consider the desired Ethernet rate, available I/O and available transceivers; PHY devices that offer the skew control feature; and device driver availability.
The Cyclone® V/ Arria® V SoC Hard Processor System (HPS) can connect its embedded Ethernet MAC (EMAC) PHY interfaces directly to industry standard Gigabit Ethernet PHYs using the RGMII interface at any supported I/O voltage using the HPS Dedicated I/O pins. These voltages typically include 1.8V, 2.5V and 3.0V. If the HPS Dedicated I/O pins are used for the PHY interface, then no FPGA routing resources are used and timing is fixed, simplifying timing on the interface. This document describes the design guidelines for RGMII, the most typical interfaces.
You can also connect PHYs to the HPS EMACs through the FPGA fabric using the GMII and MII bus interfaces for Gigabit and 10/100 Mbps access respectively. A GMII-to-SGMII adapter is also available to automatically adapt to transceiver-based SGMII optical modules.