Arria® V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

ID 683573
Date 5/29/2020
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Document Table of Contents

1.2.3.2.7. 64B/66B Decoder

The 64B/66B decoder block contains a 64B/66B decoder sub-block and a receiver state machine sub-block. The 64B/66B decoder sub-block converts the received data from the descrambler into 64-bit data and 8-bit control characters. The receiver state machine sub-block monitors the status signal from the BER monitor. If the status signal is asserted, the receiver state machine sends local fault ordered sets to the FPGA interface.
Note: The 64B/66B encoder is used only in 10GBASE-R configurations.

The 64B/66B decoder block is designed towards the 10GBASE-R protocol specification as described in IEEE 802.3-2008 clause-49.