Cyclone® V to Agilex™ 5 Device Migration Guide

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Date 4/01/2024
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2.16. Ethernet Interface

Agilex™ 5 devices have Ethernet hard and soft IPs with significant performance and feature enhancements. Hence, you cannot directly migrate existing Cyclone® V Ethernet designs to Agilex™ 5 devices.

The following table lists key differences in the Ethernet interfaces between the Cyclone® V and Agilex™ 5 devices:

Table 31.  Ethernet Interface Differences
Features Cyclone® V Agilex™ 5
Media Access Control (MAC) No hard MAC available Hardened MAC supports 10G/25G
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) No support for PTP Supports MAC PTP
Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS)
  • Supports IEEE 802.3-compliant clause 36
  • Supports 8b/10b encoding and decoding
  • Supports IEEE 802.3-compliant clause 49
  • Supports 64b/66b encoding and decoding
Forward-Error Correction (FEC) No hardened FEC

Supports Firecode FEC and Reed-Solomon FEC

Physical Media Attachment (PMA) 6.144 Gbps (maximum data rate) 17.16/28.1 Gbps (maximum data rate)
Supported Ethernet Rate 1G/2.5G 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G/25G