GTS Transceiver PHY User Guide

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Date 10/07/2024
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2.7.1. Bonding Architecture

The objective of bonding is to minimize the TX lane-to-lane skew for multi-lane configurations to support protocols that have stringent skew requirements.
Bonding is applied for the following modes:
  • PMA Direct (x2, x4, x6, and x8)
  • PCS Direct (x2, x4, x6 and x8)
Supported channel bonding configurations are x2, x4, x6 and x8 as shown in Channel Placement Rules and Design Requirements . Bonding works with the following clocking modes:
Table 17.  Bonding Clocking Modes
Modes Clocking Modes
PMA Direct PMA Clocking/System Clocking
PCS Direct System Clocking
For bonded configurations, only phase compensation mode of the core interface FIFO is supported.