LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP User Guide: Intel® Arria® 10 and Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Devices

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LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP User Guide: Intel® Arria® 10 and Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Devices
LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP User Guide: Intel® Arria® 10 and Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Devices x
Release Information LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Features LVDS SERDES IP Core Functional Modes LVDS SERDES IP Core Functional Description LVDS SERDES IP Initialization and Reset LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Signals LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Parameter Settings LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Timing LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Design Examples Additional LVDS SERDES IP Core References LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives Document Revision History for LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP User Guide: Intel® Arria® 10 and Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Devices
LVDS SERDES IP Core Functional Description x
Serializer DPA FIFO Bitslip Deserializer
LVDS SERDES IP Initialization and Reset x
Initializing the LVDS SERDES IP in Non-DPA Mode Initializing the LVDS SERDES IP in DPA Mode Resetting the DPA Word Boundaries Alignment
Word Boundaries Alignment x
Aligning Word Boundaries
LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Parameter Settings x
LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP General Settings LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP PLL Settings LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Receiver Settings LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Transmitter Settings LVDS SERDES IP Core Clock Resource Summary
LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Receiver Settings x
Receiver Input Clock Parameters Setup
LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Transmitter Settings x
Setting the Transmitter Output Clock Parameters
LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Timing x
I/O Timing Analysis FPGA Timing Analysis Timing Analysis when Using PLL Core Clocks Timing Closure Guidelines for Internal FPGA Paths
I/O Timing Analysis x
Obtaining RSKM Report Obtaining TCCS Report
LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Design Examples x
LVDS SERDES IP Synthesizable Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Examples LVDS SERDES IP Simulation Design Example Combined LVDS SERDES IP Transmitter and Receiver Design Example LVDS SERDES IP Dynamic Phase Shift Design Example
Additional LVDS SERDES IP Core References x
IP Migration Flow for Arria® V, Cyclone® V, and Stratix® V Devices LVDS Interface with External PLL Mode LVDS Transmitters and Receivers in the Same I/O Bank Comparison of LVDS SERDES IP Core with Stratix® V SERDES
IP Migration Flow for Arria® V, Cyclone® V, and Stratix® V Devices x
Migrating Your ALTLVDS_TX and ALTLVDS_RX IP Cores
LVDS Interface with External PLL Mode x
IOPLL IP Signal Interface with LVDS SERDES IP IOPLL Parameter Values for External PLL Mode Connection between IOPLL IP and LVDS SERDES IP in External PLL Mode
LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP User Guide: Intel® Arria® 10 and Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX Devices

LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Timing

Use the Intel® Quartus® Prime software from version 14.0.a10 onwards to generate the required timing constraint to perform proper timing analysis of the LVDS SERDES IP core in Intel® Arria® 10 and Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX devices.
Table 16.   LVDS SERDES IP Timing Components
Timing Component Description
Source Synchronous Paths

The source synchronous paths are paths where clock and data signals are passed from the transmitting devices to the receiving devices. For example:

  • FPGA/LVDS/receiver to external receiving device transmitting
  • External transmitting device to FPGA/non-DPA mode/LVDS/receiver receiving path
Dynamic Phase Alignment Paths

A DPA block registers the I/O capture paths in soft-CDR and DPA-FIFO modes. The DPA block dynamically chooses the best phase from the PLL VCO clocks to latch the input data.

Internal FPGA Paths

The internal FPGA paths are the paths inside the FPGA fabric:

  • LVDS receiver hardware to core registers paths
  • Core registers to LVDS transmitter hardware paths
  • Others core registers to core registers path

The Timing Analyzer reports the corresponding timing margins.

Table 17.   LVDS SERDES IP Timing Constraint FilesThis table lists the timing files generated by the LVDS SERDES IP. Use these files for successful timing analysis of the LVDS SERDES IP. You can find these files in the <variation_name> directory.
File Name Description

<variation_name>_altera_lvds_core20_<quartus_version>_<random_id>.sdc

This .sdc file allows the Intel® Quartus® Prime Fitter to optimize timing margins with timing-driven compilation. The file also allows the Timing Analyzer to analyze the timing of your design.

The IP uses the .sdc for the following operations:

  • Creating clocks on PLL inputs
  • Creating generated clocks
  • Calling derive_clock_uncertainty
  • Creating proper multi-cycle constraints

You can locate this file in the .qip generated during IP generation.

sdc_util.tcl This .tcl file is a library of functions and procedures that the .sdc uses.

Section Content
I/O Timing Analysis
FPGA Timing Analysis
Timing Analysis when Using PLL Core Clocks
Timing Closure Guidelines for Internal FPGA Paths

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