Low Latency 40G Ethernet Intel® FPGA IP User Guide: Agilex™ 5 FPGAs and SoCs

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Date 7/22/2024
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6.9. Flow Control Interface

Table 24.  Flow Control Signals

Signal Name

Direction

Width

Description

pause_insert_tx0

Input QN
These signals are available only if Pause or PFC flow control support is synthesized. Indicates the MAC whether a XON or XOFF Pause or PFC flow control frame should be sent.
  • FCQN = 1 for Pause
  • FCQN = 1 to 8 for PFC

The request for XON/XOFF flow control frame transmission can be done in either 1 or 2-bit request mode (see pause_insert_tx1).

1-bit mode request model:

The following encoding is defined:
  • 0: No request
  • 0 to 1: Generate XOFF request
  • 1: Continue to generate XOFF request
  • 1 to 0: Generate XON request

2-bit mode request model:

Represents the lower bit. Only takes effect when the CSR of 2-bit Flow Control Request mode selects "Signal". The following encoding is defined:

  • 00: No request.
  • 01: Generate XON request
  • 10: Generate XOFF request
  • 11: Invalid request
pause_insert_tx1 Input QN

Used in conjunction with pause_insert_tx0 to form a 2-bit request for XON/XOFF flow control frame transmission.

This represents the upper bit of the 2-bit control.

pause_receive_rx Output QN Asserted to indicate an RX pause signal match. The IP asserts bit [n] of this signal when it receives a pause request with an address match, to signal the TX MAC to throttle its transmissions from priority queue [n] on the Ethernet link.