GTS Transceiver PHY User Guide

ID 817660
Date 7/08/2024
Public
Document Table of Contents

1. GTS Transceiver Overview

Updated for:
Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Suite 24.2
This user guide describes the architecture and implementation details about the GTS transceivers in Agilex™ 5 FPGAs.
  • Architecture details of the GTS transceiver in chapter 2
  • Implementation details of the GTS IPs in chapter 3 to 6.
The GTS transceivers have a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) serial interface with an advanced physical medium attachment (PMA) and multiple hard IPs to allow efficient implementation of popular and emerging serial protocols. The GTS transceiver banks are monolithically integrated to the FPGA core for greater efficiency in lower power consumption and smaller form factor.
Note: Device support for Agilex™ 5 D-Series FPGAs and SoCs in the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 24.2 is restricted. To enable D-Series device support in your instance of the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software, contact your regional Altera sales representative.
Table 1.  Key GTS Transceiver Features
Feature E-Series (Device Group B) E-Series (Device Group A) D-Series
Number of available PMAs 4-24 PMAs 8-32 PMAs
Data rate range 1-17.16 Gbps NRZ 1-28.1 Gbps NRZ
PCIe* hard IP Up to six PCIe* 3.0 x4 or PCIe* 4.0 x4 1 Up to six PCIe* 4.0 x4 Up to four PCIe* 4.0 x8
Ethernet hard IP IEEE 802.3-compliant Clause 49 physical coding sublayer (PCS) IEEE 802.3-compliant Clause 49 or Clause 107 PCS
Up to six 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) media access control (MAC) Up to six 10 or 25 GbE MAC Up to sixteen 10 or 25 GbE MAC
Supports IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP), Auto Negotiation and Link Training (AN/LT)
Forward Error Correction (FEC)
  • IEEE 802.3 Clause 74 Firecode FEC
  • IEEE 802.3 Clause 91 Reed-Solomon FEC RS (528, 524)
  • IEEE 802.3 Clause 91 Reed-Solomon FEC RS (528, 524) ETC
  • Fibre Channel Reed-Solomon FEC RS (528,514)
  • OTU25u Reed-Solomon FEC RS (528, 514)
USB 3.1 hard IP 2 One channel with USB 3.1 controller in HPS block
1 Supported for -4S speed grade (VCC=0.8V) devices only.
2 Devices with GTS transceiver and HPS only.