25G Ethernet Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA IP User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. About the 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP 2. Getting Started 3. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Parameters 4. Functional Description 5. Reset 6. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions 7. Control, Status, and Statistics Register Descriptions 8. Debugging the Link 9. 25G Ethernet Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA IP User Guide Archive 10. Document Revision History for the 25G Ethernet Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA IP User Guide
1. About the 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP x
1.1. Release Information 1.2. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Supported Features 1.3. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core Device Family and Speed Grade Support 1.4. IP Core Verification 1.5. Performance and Resource Utilization
1.3. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core Device Family and Speed Grade Support x
1.3.1. Device Family Support 1.3.2. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core Device Speed Grade Support
1.4. IP Core Verification x
1.4.1. Simulation Environment 1.4.2. Compilation Checking 1.4.3. Hardware Testing
2. Getting Started x
2.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores 2.2. Specifying the 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core Parameters and Options 2.3. Simulating the IP Core 2.4. Generated File Structure 2.5. Integrating Your IP Core in Your Design 2.6. Compiling the Full Design and Programming the FPGA
2.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
2.1.1. Intel® FPGA IP Evaluation Mode
2.5. Integrating Your IP Core in Your Design x
2.5.1. Pin Assignments 2.5.2. Adding the Transceiver PLL 2.5.3. Handling Potential Jitter in Intel® Arria® 10 Devices 2.5.4. Adding the External Time-of-Day Module for Variations with 1588 PTP Feature 2.5.5. Placement Settings for the 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core
4. Functional Description x
4.1. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core Functional Description 4.2. User Interface to Ethernet Transmission
4.1. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core Functional Description x
4.1.1. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core TX MAC Datapath 4.1.2. 25 GbE TX PCS 4.1.3. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core RX MAC Datapath 4.1.4. Link Fault Signaling Interface 4.1.5. 25 GbE RX PCS 4.1.6. Flow Control 4.1.7. 1588 Precision Time Protocol Interfaces
4.1.1. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core TX MAC Datapath x
4.1.1.1. Frame Padding 4.1.1.2. Preamble Insertion 4.1.1.3. Inter-Packet Gap Generation and Insertion 4.1.1.4. Frame Check Sequence (CRC32) Insertion
4.1.2. 25 GbE TX PCS x
4.1.2.1. TX RSFEC
4.1.3. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core RX MAC Datapath x
4.1.3.1. IP Core Preamble Processing 4.1.3.2. IP Core Malformed Packet Handling 4.1.3.3. Length/Type Field Processing 4.1.3.4. RX CRC Checking and Dynamic Forwarding
4.1.3.3. Length/Type Field Processing x
4.1.3.3.1. Length Checking
4.1.5. 25 GbE RX PCS x
4.1.5.1. RX RSFEC
4.1.6. Flow Control x
4.1.6.1. TX Pause/PFC Flow Control Frame Transmission Request 4.1.6.2. XON/XOFF Pause Frames Priority-based Flow Control Standard Flow Control
4.1.7. 1588 Precision Time Protocol Interfaces x
4.1.7.1. Implementing a 1588 System That Includes a 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core 4.1.7.2. PTP Receive Functionality 4.1.7.3. PTP Transmit Functionality 4.1.7.4. External Time-of-Day Module for 1588 PTP Variations 4.1.7.5. PTP Timestamp and TOD Formats
4.2. User Interface to Ethernet Transmission x
4.2.1. Order of Transmission 4.2.2. Bit Order For TX and RX Datapaths
6. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions x
6.1. TX MAC Interface to User Logic 6.2. RX MAC Interface to User Logic 6.3. Transceivers 6.4. Transceiver Reconfiguration Signals 6.5. Avalon® Memory-Mapped Management Interface 6.6. 1588 PTP Interface Signals 6.7. Miscellaneous Status and Debug Signals 6.8. Reset Signals
7. Control, Status, and Statistics Register Descriptions x
7.1. PHY Registers 7.2. TX MAC Registers 7.3. RX MAC Registers 7.4. Pause/PFC Flow Control Registers 7.5. Statistics Registers 7.6. 1588 PTP Registers 7.7. TX Reed-Solomon FEC Registers 7.8. RX Reed-Solomon FEC Registers
7.5. Statistics Registers x
7.5.1. TX Statistics Registers 7.5.2. RX Statistics Registers
8. Debugging the Link x
8.1. Error Insertion Test and Debugging
1. About the 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP
2. Getting Started
3. 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Parameters
4. Functional Description
5. Reset
6. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions
7. Control, Status, and Statistics Register Descriptions
8. Debugging the Link
9. 25G Ethernet Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA IP User Guide Archive
10. Document Revision History for the 25G Ethernet Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA IP User Guide

4.1.6.2. XON/XOFF Pause Frames

Priority-based Flow Control

You can trigger the 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP core to transmit PFC XOFF frame with a pause duration that is specified in TX Flow Control Quanta register by updating the pause_insert_tx0 and pause_insert_tx1 input signals or TX flow control registers. If an enabled priority queue is in the XOFF condition, a new PFC frame is transmitted after the minimum time gap. You specify the minimum time gap in the per priority queue TX Flow Control Signal XOFF Request Hold Quanta register. The minimum time gap between two consecutive PFC frames is 1 pause quanta or 512-bit times. PFC frame transmission ends when none of the PFC interfaces of all enabled priority queues is requesting PFC frames.

A transition from XOFF to XON in any enabled priority queue triggers the IP core to transmit a PFC frame with pause quanta of 0 for the associated priority queue. The IP core sends a single XON flow control frame. In the rare case that the XON frame is lost or corrupted, the remote partner should still be able to resume transmission. The remote partner resumes transmission after the duration or the pause quanta value specified in the previous XOFF flow control frame expires.

Standard Flow Control

In the case of standard flow control, the IP core transmits Pause frames instead of PFC frames. The transmission behavior is identical.

When the IP core is in standard flow control mode and receives a Pause frame, the IP core stops processing TX client data, either immediately or at the next frame boundary. Client data transmission resumes when all of the following conditions are true:

  • The time specified by the pause quanta has elapsed and there is no new quanta value.
  • A valid pause frame with 0 pause duration has been received.

A Pause frame has no effect if the associated TX Flow Control Enable register bit is set to disable XON and XOFF flow control.

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