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

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Document Table of Contents x
1. About the F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP User Guide 2. About this IP 3. Getting Started 4. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel® FPGA 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 IP User Guide
2. About this IP x
2.1. Release Information 2.2. Features 2.3. Device Family Support 2.4. Performance and Resource Utilization
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 IP Functional Description 5.2. User Interface to Ethernet Transmission
5.1. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP Functional Description x
5.1.1. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP TX MAC Datapath 5.1.2. 50 GbE TX PCS 5.1.3. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel® FPGA 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 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 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 IP User Guide
2. About this IP
3. Getting Started
4. F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel® FPGA 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 IP User Guide

5.1.1.2. Preamble Insertion

In the TX datapath the MAC prepends an eight-byte preamble to the client frame. If you turn on Enable link fault generation, this MAC module also incorporates the functions of the reconciliation sublayer (RS).

The source of the 7-byte preamble (including a Start byte) and 1-byte SFD depends on whether you turn on Enable preamble passthrough in the parameter editor.

If the preamble pass-through feature is enabled, the client provides the eight-byte preamble (including the 0xFB Start byte and final 1-byte SFD) on l1_tx_data. The client is responsible for providing the correct Start byte (0xFB) and an appropriate SFD byte. If the preamble pass-through feature is disabled, the MAC inserts the standard Ethernet preamble in the transmitted Ethernet frame.

Note that a single parameter in the F-Tile Low Latency 50G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP parameter editor turns on both RX and TX preamble passthrough.

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