Arria® V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

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Date 5/29/2020
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1.2.2.1.6. Receiver Polarity Inversion

The positive and negative signals of a serial differential link might erroneously be swapped during board layout. Solutions such as board re-spin or major updates to the PLD logic can be expensive. The polarity inversion feature at the receiver corrects the swapped signal error without requiring board re-spin or major updates to the logic in the FPGA fabric. The polarity inversion feature inverts the polarity of every bit at the input to the word aligner, which has the same effect as swapping the positive and negative signals of the serial differential link.

Inversion is controlled dynamically with the rx_invpolarity register. When you enable the polarity inversion feature, initial disparity errors may occur at the receiver with the 8B/10B-coded data. The receiver must be able to tolerate these disparity errors.

CAUTION:
If you enable polarity inversion midway through a word, the word will be corrupted.