R-Tile Avalon® Streaming Intel® FPGA IP for PCI Express* User Guide

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Date 7/08/2024
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4.3.8. Configuration Intercept Interface

The Configuration Intercept Interface (CII) allows the application logic to detect the occurrence of a Configuration (CFG) request on the link and to modify its behavior. To provide further flexibility, the R-Tile Intel FPGA IP for PCI Express allows you to define up to three different PCIe configuration space ranges to intercept using this interface (refer to CII Address Ranges in the IP Parameter Editor, where the allowed range is 0x - 0xFFF).

Note: If the VirtIO feature is enabled, the ranges 0x50-0x6E and 0xC0-0xF7 are reserved and only one range will be exposed.

The application logic should detect the CFG request at the rising edge of cii_req_o. Due to the latency of the EMIB, the cii_req_o can be deasserted many cycles after the deassertion of cii_halt_i.

The application logic can use the CII to:

  • Delay the processing of a CFG request by the controller. This allows the application to perform any housekeeping task first.
  • Overwrite the data payload of a CfgWr request. The application logic can also overwrite the data payload of a CfgRd Completion TLP.
Note: In the P-Tile Avalon® Streaming Intel FPGA IP for PCIe, the Configuration Output Interface (tl_cfg) provided a subset of the information stored in the PCIe Configuration space. Starting with the R-Tile Avalon® Streaming Intel FPGA IP for PCIe, the CII interface should be used as a replacement for similar functionality. To achieve this, the Application logic should intercept the Configuration TLPs of interest during the enumeration process. Additionally, the Hard IP Reconfiguration Interface (Hard IP Reconfiguration Interface) is available and can also be used to access the PCIe Configuration space information.

This interface also allows you to implement the Intel Vendor Specific Extended Capability (VSEC) registers. All configuration accesses targeting the Intel VSEC registers (addresses 0xD00 to 0xFFF) are automatically mapped to this interface and can be monitored via this interface.

If you are not using this interface, tie cii_halt_p0/1 to logic 0.

Table 72.  Configuration Intercept Interface (CII) Signals
Signal Name Direction Description EP/RP/BP Clock Domain
pX_cii_req_o Output Indicates the CFG request is intercepted and all the other CII signals are valid. EP slow_clk
pX_cii_hdr_poisoned_o Output The poisoned bit in the received TLP header on the CII. EP slow_clk
pX_cii_hdr_first_be_o[3:0] Output The first dword byte enable field in the received TLP header on the CII. EP slow_clk
pX_cii_func_num_o[2:0] Output The function number in the received TLP header on the CII. EP slow_clk
pX_cii_wr_o Output Indicates that cii_dout_p0/1 is valid. This signal is asserted only for a configuration write request. EP slow_clk
pX_cii_wr_vf_active_o Output Indicates that the received TLP targets a virtual function (VF) inside the controller, which is identified by cii_vf_num_o[10:0]. EP slow_clk
pX_cii_vf_num_o[10:0] Output Identifies the VF inside the controller that was targeted. EP slow_clk
pX_cii_addr_o[9:0] Output The double-word register address in the received TLP header on the CII. EP slow_clk
pX_cii_dout_o[31:0] Output Received TLP payload data from the link partner to your application client. The data is in little endian format. The first received payload byte is in bits [7:0]. EP slow_clk
pX_cii_override_en_i Input Override enable. When the application logic asserts this input, the PCIe Hard IP overrides the CfgWr payload or CfgRd completion using the data supplied by the application logic on cii_override_din_i[31:0]. EP slow_clk
pX_cii_override_din_i[31:0] Input Override data.
  • CfgWr: this bus contains the data supplied by the application logic to override the write data to the PCIe Hard IP register.
  • CfgRd: this bus contains the data supplied by the application logic to override the data payload of the Completion TLP.
EP slow_clk
pX_cii_halt_i Input Flow control input signal. When cii_halt_p0/1 is asserted, the PCIe Hard IP halts the processing of CFG requests for the PCIe configuration space registers. EP slow_clk
Figure 38. CII Address Ranges in the IP Parameter Editor