Arria® V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

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

1.2.4.1.2. Scrambler

The Scrambler is an additive scrambler on a per-lane basis with degree 23 polynomial linear feedback shift register (LFSR), with different taps for the 8 adjacent lanes. The scrambler is used to provide enough edge density, since there is no 8B/10B encoding in PCIe Gen 3, so that the RX PMA CDR can lock to the incoming data stream and generate the recovered clock.