Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. About the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide 2. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview 3. Functional Description 4. Getting Started 5. Parameters 6. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals 7. Designing with Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP 8. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Registers 9. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives 10. Document Revision History for the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
2. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview x
2.1. Release Information 2.2. Supported Features 2.3. IP Version Support Level 2.4. Device Speed Grade Support 2.5. Resource Utilization and Latency 2.6. Bandwidth Efficiency
3. Functional Description x
3.1. TX Datapath 3.2. RX Datapath 3.3. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Clock Architecture 3.4. Reset and Link Initialization 3.5. Link Rate and Bandwidth Efficiency Calculation
3.1. TX Datapath x
3.1.1. TX MAC Adapter 3.1.2. Control Word (CW) Insertion 3.1.3. TX CRC 3.1.4. TX MII Encoder 3.1.5. TX PCS and PMA
3.1.2. Control Word (CW) Insertion x
3.1.2.1. Start-of-burst CW 3.1.2.2. End-of-burst CW 3.1.2.3. Alignment Paired CW 3.1.2.4. Empty-cycle CW 3.1.2.5. Idle CW 3.1.2.6. Data Word
3.2. RX Datapath x
3.2.1. RX PCS and PMA 3.2.2. RX MII Decoder 3.2.3. RX CRC 3.2.4. RX Deskew 3.2.5. RX CW Removal
3.4. Reset and Link Initialization x
3.4.1. TX Reset and Initialization Sequence 3.4.2. RX Reset and Initialization Sequence 3.4.3. PMA Adaptation Flow
3.4.3. PMA Adaptation Flow x
3.4.3.1. Starting the PMA Adaptation Flow
4. Getting Started x
4.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores 4.2. Specifying the IP Parameters and Options 4.3. Generated File Structure 4.4. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores 4.5. Synthesizing IP Cores in Other EDA Tools 4.6. Compiling the Full Design
4.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
4.1.1. Intel® FPGA IP Evaluation Mode
4.4. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
4.4.1. Simulating and Verifying the Design
6. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals x
6.1. Clock Signals 6.2. Reset Signals 6.3. MAC Signals 6.4. Transceiver Reconfiguration Signals 6.5. PMA Signals
7. Designing with Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP x
7.1. Reset Guidelines 7.2. Error Handling Guidelines 7.3. E-Tile Channel Placement Tool
1. About the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide
2. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Overview
3. Functional Description
4. Getting Started
5. Parameters
6. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Interface Signals
7. Designing with Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP
8. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Registers
9. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide Archives
10. Document Revision History for the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

3.3. Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Clock Architecture

The Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP has four clock inputs which generate clocks to different blocks:
  • Transceiver reference clock (xcvr_ref_clk)—Input clock from external clock chips or oscillators which generates clocks for TX MAC, RX MAC, and TX and RX custom PCS blocks. The IP supports reference clocks provided from separate clock chips or oscillators with a tolerance of ±100 ppm clock variation between the different clock chips or oscillators. Refer to Parameters for supported frequency range.
  • TX core clock (tx_core_clk)—This clock is derived from transceiver PLL (clk_pll_div64[mid_ch]) in the custom PCS and is used for TX custom PCS interface and TX MAC. This clock is also an output clock from the IP to connect to the TX user logic.
  • RX core clock (rx_core_clk)—This clock is derived from the transceiver PLL (clk_pll_div64[mid_ch]) in the custom PCS and is used for RX custom PCS interface, RX deskew FIFO, and RX MAC. This clock is also an output clock from the IP to connect to the RX user logic.
  • Clock for transceiver reconfiguration interface (reconfig_clk)—input clock from external clock circuits or oscillators which generates clocks for custom PCS and RS-FEC reconfiguration interface in both TX and RX datapaths. The clock frequency is 100 to 162 MHz. For more about custom PCS and RS-FEC reconfiguration interface, refer to E-tile Hard IP User Guide: E-tile Hard IP for Ethernet and E-Tile CPRI PHY Intel® FPGA IPs.

The following block diagram shows Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP clock domains and the connections within the IP.

Figure 21.  Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Clock Architecture
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