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6.3.5. Advanced Channel Placement Guidelines for PIPE Configurations
In the following figures, channels shaded in blue provide the transmit CMU PLL generating the high-speed serial clock. Channels shaded in gray are data channels. An ATX PLL shaded in green can be substituted for the CMU PLL for Gen1 and Gen2 configurations only. Gen3 channel placement requires both the CMU PLL for Gen1/Gen2 datarates and the ATX PLL for Gen3 datarates to be located in the same transceiver bank as the master channel. The Quartus II software automatically selects the CMU PLL in either channel 1 or channel 4 and/or the upper or lower ATX PLL within a transceiver bank.
Advanced Channel Placement for PIPE x2 Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3 Configurations
Advanced Channel Placement for PIPE x4 Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3 Configurations
Advanced Channel Placement for PIPE x8 Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3 Configurations
For PCIe x8 advanced channel placement where the master channel resides between the contiguous data channel assignments, a second QSF assignment is required that allows the master channel to be placed between data channels.
For a HIP-compatible PCIe x8 channel placement, the master channel must be assigned logical channel 4 in the lower transceiver bank and the second QSF assignment for the reserve channel that allow master channel placement between contiguous data channel assignments are required.
The following figures show PIPE x8 Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3 advanced channel placement that requires only a master channel QSF assignment.