Arria® V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

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Date 5/29/2020
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4.1.2.2. Transmitter Electrical Idle Generation

The PIPE interface block places the channel transmitter buffer in an electrical idle state when the electrical idle input signal is asserted.

During electrical idle, the transmitter buffer differential and common configuration output voltage levels are compliant to the PCIe Base Specification 2.1 for the PCIe Gen2 data rate.

The PCIe specification requires that the transmitter buffer be placed in electrical idle in certain power states.