Cyclone V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

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Date 10/24/2018
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4. Transceiver Protocol Configurations in Cyclone V Devices

The dedicated transceiver physical coding sublayer (PCS) and physical medium attachment (PMA) circuitry supports the following communication protocols.
Table 46.  Transceiver PCS Features for Cyclone V Devices
PCS Support Data Rates (Gbps) Transmitter Datapath Receiver Datapath

PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen1 (x1, x2, and x4) and Gen2 (x1, x2, and x4)

2.5, 5

PIPE (PHY Interface for the PCIe architecture) interface to the PCIe Hard IP

PIPE interface to the PCIe Hard IP

Gbps Ethernet (GbE)

1.25, 3.125

The same as custom single- and double-width modes

The same as custom single- and double-width modes, plus the rate match FIFO

Serial Digital Interface (SDI)

0.2710, 1.485, and 2.97

Phase compensation FIFO and byte serializer

Phase compensation FIFO and byte deserializer

SATA, SAS

1.5 and 3.0

Phase compensation FIFO, byte serializer, and 8B/10B encoder

Phase compensation FIFO, byte deserializer, word aligner, and 8B/10B decoder

Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI)

0.6144, 1.2288, 2.4576, 3.072, 4.9152, 6.144 11

The same as custom single- and double-width modes, plus the transmitter (TX) deterministic latency

The same as custom single- and double-width modes, plus the receiver (RX) deterministic latency

OBSAI

0.768, 1.536, 3.072

The same as custom single- and double-width modes, plus the TX deterministic latency

The same as custom single- and double-width modes, plus the RX deterministic latency

XAUI 3.125 Implemented using soft PCS Implemented using soft PCS
10 The 0.27 gigabits per second (Gbps) data rate is supported using oversampling user logic that must be implemented by the user in the FPGA core.
11 Cyclone V GT devices support data rates greater than 5.0 Gbps only in CPRI.