F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel® FPGA Soft-IP User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. About the F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP User Guide 2. About this IP 3. Getting Started 4. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP Parameters 5. Functional Description 6. Reset 7. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions 8. Control, Status, and Statistics Register Descriptions 9. Document Revision History for the F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP User Guide
2. About this IP x
2.1. Release Information 2.2. Features 2.3. Device Family Support
3. Getting Started x
3.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores 3.2. Specifying the IP Core Parameters and Options 3.3. Simulating the IP Core 3.4. Generated File Structure 3.5. Integrating Your IP Core in Your Design 3.6. Compiling the Full Design and Programming the FPGA
3.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
3.1.1. Intel® FPGA IP Evaluation Mode
3.5. Integrating Your IP Core in Your Design x
3.5.1. Pin Assignments 3.5.2. Adding the F-tile Reference and System PLL Clocks Intel® FPGA IP 3.5.3. Placement Settings for the 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Core
5. Functional Description x
5.1. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP Functional Description 5.2. User Interface to Ethernet Transmission
5.1. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP Functional Description x
5.1.1. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP TX MAC Datapath 5.1.2. 50 GbE TX PCS 5.1.3. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP Core RX MAC Datapath 5.1.4. Link Fault Signaling Interface 5.1.5. 50 GbE RX PCS 5.1.6. Flow Control
5.1.1. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP TX MAC Datapath x
5.1.1.1. Frame Padding 5.1.1.2. Preamble Insertion 5.1.1.3. Inter-Packet Gap Generation and Insertion 5.1.1.4. Frame Check Sequence (CRC32) Insertion
5.1.3. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP Core RX MAC Datapath x
5.1.3.1. IP Core Preamble Processing 5.1.3.2. IP Core Malformed Packet Handling 5.1.3.3. Length/Type Field Processing
5.1.3.3. Length/Type Field Processing x
5.1.3.3.1. Length Checking 5.1.3.3.2. RX CRC Checking and Dynamic Forwarding
5.1.6. Flow Control x
5.1.6.1. TX Pause/PFC Flow Control Frame Transmission Request 5.1.6.2. XON/XOFF Pause Frames
5.2. User Interface to Ethernet Transmission x
5.2.1. Order of Transmission 5.2.2. Bit Order For TX and RX Datapaths
7. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions x
7.1. TX MAC Interface to User Logic 7.2. RX MAC Interface to User Logic 7.3. Transceivers 7.4. Transceiver Reconfiguration Signals 7.5. Avalon® Memory-Mapped Management Interface 7.6. Miscellaneous Status and Debug Signals 7.7. Flow Control Signals 7.8. Clock Signals 7.9. Reset Signals
8. Control, Status, and Statistics Register Descriptions x
8.1. TX MAC Registers 8.2. RX MAC Registers 8.3. Pause/PFC Flow Control Registers 8.4. Statistics Registers 8.5. Hard IP Registers
8.4. Statistics Registers x
8.4.1. Statistics Registers
1. About the F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP User Guide
2. About this IP
3. Getting Started
4. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP Parameters
5. Functional Description
6. Reset
7. Interfaces and Signal Descriptions
8. Control, Status, and Statistics Register Descriptions
9. Document Revision History for the F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP User Guide

5.1.3.2. IP Core Malformed Packet Handling

While receiving an incoming packet from the Ethernet link, the F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP expects to detect a terminate character at the end of the packet. When it detects an expected terminate character, the IP core generates an EOP on the client interface. However, sometimes the IP core detects an unexpected control character when it expects a terminate character.

If the IP core detects an Error character, a Start character, an IDLE character, or any other non-terminate control character, when it expects a terminate character, it performs the following actions:

  • Generates an EOP.
  • Asserts a malformed packet error (l1_rx_error[0]).
  • Asserts an FCS error (l1_rx_error[1]).

If the IP core subsequently detects a terminate character, it does not generate another EOP indication.

When the IP core receives a packet that contains an error deliberately introduced on the Ethernet link using the F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP TX error insertion feature, the IP core identifies it as a malformed packet.

At this time, the F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel FPGA Soft-IP does not recognize non-zero 4-bit ordered set types as an error.

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