Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series LVDS SERDES User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series LVDS SERDES Overview 2. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series High-Speed SERDES Architecture 3. Intel® Agilex™ LVDS SERDES Transmitter 4. Intel® Agilex™ LVDS SERDES Receiver 5. Intel® Agilex™ High-Speed LVDS I/O Implementation Guide 6. Intel® Agilex™ LVDS SERDES Timing 7. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Design Examples 8. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series High-Speed SERDES Design Guidelines 9. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series High-Speed SERDES Troubleshooting Guidelines 10. Documentation Related to the Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series LVDS SERDES User Guide 11. Document Revision History for the Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series LVDS SERDES User Guide
1. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series LVDS SERDES Overview x
1.1. High-Speed SERDES Usage Modes
2. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series High-Speed SERDES Architecture x
2.1. Intel® Agilex™ GPIO Banks, SERDES, and DPA Locations 2.2. SERDES Blocks, Modes, and Clock Domains
3. Intel® Agilex™ LVDS SERDES Transmitter x
3.1. LVDS SERDES Transmitter Blocks 3.2. Serializer 3.3. Differential I/O Bit Position 3.4. Clocking the Differential Transmitters
3.2. Serializer x
3.2.1. Serializer Bypass for DDR and SDR Operations
3.4. Clocking the Differential Transmitters x
3.4.1. Transmitter Output Clock Parameters Settings
3.4.1. Transmitter Output Clock Parameters Settings x
3.4.1.1. Edge-Aligned tx_outclock to tx_out 3.4.1.2. Center-Aligned tx_outclock to tx_out
4. Intel® Agilex™ LVDS SERDES Receiver x
4.1. LVDS SERDES Receiver Blocks 4.2. Clocking the LVDS SERDES Receivers 4.3. LVDS SERDES Receiver Modes
4.1. LVDS SERDES Receiver Blocks x
4.1.1. Dynamic Phase Alignment Block 4.1.2. Synchronizer (DPA FIFO) 4.1.3. Data Realignment Block (Bit Slip) 4.1.4. Deserializer
4.2. Clocking the LVDS SERDES Receivers x
4.2.1. Receiver Input Clock Parameters Settings
4.2.1. Receiver Input Clock Parameters Settings x
4.2.1.1. Edge-Aligned inclock to rx_in 4.2.1.2. Center-Aligned inclock to rx_in
4.3. LVDS SERDES Receiver Modes x
4.3.1. Non-DPA Mode 4.3.2. DPA Mode 4.3.3. Soft-CDR Mode
5. Intel® Agilex™ High-Speed LVDS I/O Implementation Guide x
5.1. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP 5.2. LVDS Interface with External PLL Mode 5.3. LVDS SERDES IP Initialization and Reset
5.1. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP x
5.1.1. Release Information 5.1.2. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Features 5.1.3. LVDS SERDES IP Usage Modes 5.1.4. Generating the LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP 5.1.5. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Parameter Settings 5.1.6. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Signals
5.1.4. Generating the LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP x
5.1.4.1. Intel® FPGA IP Generation Output
5.1.5. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Parameter Settings x
5.1.5.1. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP General Settings 5.1.5.2. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP PLL Settings 5.1.5.3. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Receiver Settings 5.1.5.4. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Transmitter Settings 5.1.5.5. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Clock Resource Summary
5.2. LVDS Interface with External PLL Mode x
5.2.1. IOPLL IP Signal Interface with LVDS SERDES IP 5.2.2. IOPLL Parameter Values for External PLL Mode 5.2.3. Connection between IOPLL IP and LVDS SERDES IP in External PLL Mode
5.3. LVDS SERDES IP Initialization and Reset x
5.3.1. Initializing the LVDS SERDES IP in Non-DPA Mode 5.3.2. Initializing the LVDS SERDES IP in DPA Mode 5.3.3. Resetting the DPA 5.3.4. Word Boundaries Alignment
5.3.4. Word Boundaries Alignment x
5.3.4.1. Aligning Word Boundaries
6. Intel® Agilex™ LVDS SERDES Timing x
6.1. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Timing 6.2. LVDS SERDES Source-Synchronous Timing Budget
6.1. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Timing x
6.1.1. I/O Timing Analysis 6.1.2. FPGA Timing Analysis 6.1.3. Timing Analysis for the External PLL Mode
6.1.1. I/O Timing Analysis x
6.1.1.1. Obtaining RSKM Report 6.1.1.2. Obtaining TCCS Report
6.2. LVDS SERDES Source-Synchronous Timing Budget x
6.2.1. Transmitter Channel-to-Channel Skew 6.2.2. Receiver Skew Margin
7. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Design Examples x
7.1. LVDS SERDES IP Synthesizable Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Examples 7.2. LVDS SERDES IP Simulation Design Example 7.3. Combined LVDS SERDES IP Transmitter and Receiver Design Example 7.4. LVDS SERDES IP Dynamic Phase Shift Design Example
8. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series High-Speed SERDES Design Guidelines x
8.1. Use PLLs in Integer PLL Mode for LVDS 8.2. Use High-Speed Clock from PLL to Clock SERDES Only 8.3. Pin Placement for Differential Channels 8.4. SERDES Pin Pairs for Soft-CDR Mode 8.5. Placing LVDS Transmitters and Receivers in the Same GPIO Bank
1. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series LVDS SERDES Overview
2. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series High-Speed SERDES Architecture
3. Intel® Agilex™ LVDS SERDES Transmitter
4. Intel® Agilex™ LVDS SERDES Receiver
5. Intel® Agilex™ High-Speed LVDS I/O Implementation Guide
6. Intel® Agilex™ LVDS SERDES Timing
7. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Design Examples
8. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series High-Speed SERDES Design Guidelines
9. Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series High-Speed SERDES Troubleshooting Guidelines
10. Documentation Related to the Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series LVDS SERDES User Guide
11. Document Revision History for the Intel® Agilex™ F-Series and I-Series LVDS SERDES User Guide

6.1. LVDS SERDES Intel® FPGA IP Timing

Use the Intel® Quartus® Prime software to generate the required timing constraint to perform proper timing analysis of the LVDS SERDES IP in Intel® Agilex™ devices.
Table 31.   LVDS SERDES IP Timing Components
Timing Component Description
Source Synchronous Paths

The source synchronous paths are paths where clock and data signals are passed from the transmitting devices to the receiving devices. For example:

  • FPGA/LVDS/receiver to external receiving device transmitting
  • External transmitting device to FPGA/non-DPA mode/LVDS/receiver receiving path
Dynamic Phase Alignment Paths

A DPA block registers the I/O capture paths in soft-CDR and DPA-FIFO modes. The DPA block dynamically chooses the best phase from the PLL VCO clocks to latch the input data.

Internal FPGA Paths

The internal FPGA paths are the paths inside the FPGA fabric:

  • LVDS receiver hardware to core registers paths
  • Core registers to LVDS transmitter hardware paths
  • Others core registers to core registers path

The Timing Analyzer reports the corresponding timing margins.

Table 32.   LVDS SERDES IP Timing Constraint FilesThis table lists the timing files generated by the LVDS SERDES IP. Use these files for successful timing analysis of the LVDS SERDES IP. You can find these files in the <variation_name>/altera_lvds_core14_191/synth directory.
File Name Description

<variation_name>_altera_lvds_core14_191_<random_id>.sdc

This .sdc file allows the Intel® Quartus® Prime Fitter to optimize timing margins with timing-driven compilation. The file also allows the Timing Analyzer to analyze the timing of your design.

The IP uses the .sdc for the following operations:

  • Creating clocks on PLL inputs
  • Creating generated clocks
  • Calling derive_clock_uncertainty
  • Creating proper multi-cycle constraints

You can locate this file in the .qip generated during IP generation.

sdc_util.tcl This .tcl file is a library of functions and procedures that the .sdc uses.

Section Content
I/O Timing Analysis
FPGA Timing Analysis
Timing Analysis for the External PLL Mode

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