F-Tile Dynamic Reconfiguration Suite Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 2/03/2022
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1.2. Design Considerations

  • A reconfiguration is only available within a specific topology. Reconfiguration across different topologies is not supported.
  • A reconfiguration is dependent on the fracturing rules specified in the F-Tile Architecture and PMA and FEC Direct PHY Intel® FPGA IP User Guide. For instance, you can separate a 200G fracture into two independent 100G fractures, and so on.
  • All switching must be done through a neutral state by asserting the digital data path reset and disabling the PMA.
  • Any configuration supports the SerDes rate reconfiguration as long as the rate is legal for a given serialization factor and consistent with any used system clock.
  • Dynamic reconfiguration for wireless IPs applies to TX and RX data paths in a symmetric manner.
  • PMA-direct supports equal PMA widths between TX and RX data paths. However, CPRI and JESD204B/JESD204C support a PMA-direct width of 20-bit combined with a 32-bit PCS-direct width or 32-bit FEC+PCS-direct width.
  • Dynamic reconfiguration of JESD204B in one direction and JESD204C in the other direction is supported. Dynamic reconfiguration between JESD204B and JESD204C is not supported.
  • All IPs supporting dynamic reconfiguration must adapt to the F-tile system clock. You cannot dynamically reconfigure the F-tile system PLLs, including reference clock pin and frequency.