Stratix V Device Handbook: Volume 2: Transceivers

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Date 11/23/2021
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1.3. Standard PCS Architecture

The transceiver Standard PCS circuit blocks support data rates up to 12.2 Gbps depending on the transceiver speed grade.

Figure 19. Standard PCS Datapath in GX Channels
Note: The PCS can be completely bypassed using the PMA direct mode. This is an option for GX channels. The GT channels do not have a PCS, and always operate in PMA direct mode.

Some transceiver channels interface to the PCIe hard IP block, the PIPE interface for soft IP implementations of PCIe, or directly to the FPGA fabric (FPGA fabric-transceiver interface). The transceiver channel interfaces to the PCIe hard IP block if you use the hard IP block to implement the PCIe PHY MAC, data link layer, and transaction layer. Otherwise, the transceiver channel interfaces directly to the FPGA fabric.

The PCIe hard IP-transceiver interface is outside the scope of this chapter. This chapter describes the FPGA fabric-transceiver interface only.

You can divide the standard transceiver channel datapath into two configurations based on the FPGA fabric-transceiver interface width (channel width) and the transceiver channel PMA-PCS width (serialization factor).

Table 5.  Transceiver Interface Widths
Name 8- and 10-Bit PMA-PCS Widths 16- and 20-Bit PMA-PCS Widths
FPGA fabric-transceiver interface widths

8 and 10 bit

16 and 20 bit

16 and 20 bit

32 and 40 bit

Supported configurations

PCIe Gen1 and Gen2

XAUI

Custom configuration (Custom or Native or Low Latency PHY IPs)

Custom configuration (Custom or Native or Low Latency PHY IPs)
Data rate range in a custom configuration 0.6 to 3.75 Gbps 1.0 to 12.2 Gbps

The standard PCS can be configured for various protocols by selecting different PCS blocks in the receiver and transmitter datapath.