Intel® FPGA IP for PCIe*
PCI Express (PCIe*) protocol is a high-performance, scalable, and feature-rich serial protocol with data transfer rates from 2.5 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) to 32 GT/s and beyond. Intel® FPGA Intellectual Property (IP) for PCIe continues to scale as the PCI-SIG organization delivers next-generation specifications. Intel has been a member of PCI-SIG since 1992, and with each new generation of silicon, Intel continues to participate in PCI-SIG Compliance Workshops to ensure interoperability and conformance with current industry standards.
Intel® FPGA IP for PCIe*
The PCIe IP solutions include Intel’s PCIe hardened protocol stack, which includes the transaction and data link layers, as well as a hardened physical layer. The later one includes both the physical medium attachment (PMA) and physical coding sublayer (PCS). Intel's PCIe IP portfolio also includes optional soft IP blocks, such as Direct Memory Access (DMA) engines and PCIe Switch. This unique combination of hardened and soft IP provides superior performance and flexibility for optimal integration.
Intel offers Intel FPGA® IP function-based PCIe IP solutions that have evolved with PCI-SIG’s protocol roadmap.
- Support for up to PCIe 4.0 x8 with GTS hard IP ›
- Support for up to PCIe 5.0 x16 with R-tile hard IP ›
- Support for up to PCIe 4.0 x16 & 400G Ethernet with F-tile hard IP ›
- Support for up to PCIe 4.0 x16 with P-tile hard IP ›
- Support for up to PCIe 3.0 x16 with L/H-tile hard IP ›
- Support for up to 3x8 with Hard IP on Arria® 10 and Cyclone® 10 devices ›
Intel also offers complementary soft IPs, which work with the hard IPs above for doing PCIe DMA and Switch functions.
Device Support and Number of PCIe IP Blocks
Device Family |
Number of PCIe* IP Blocks |
PCIe Link Speed 1.0 (2.5 GT/s) |
PCIe Link Speed 2.0 (5.0 GT/s) |
PCIe Link Speed 3.0 (8.0 GT/s) |
PCIe Link Speed 4.0 (16.0 GT/s) |
PCIe Link Speed 5.0 (32.0 GT/s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agilex™ 5 | 1 - 4 per device | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Agilex™ 7 |
1–4 per device |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Stratix® 10 |
1–4 per device |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
Arria® 10 |
1–4 per device |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Cyclone® 10 |
1 per device |
✓ |
✓ |
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Cyclone® 10 GX |
1 per device |
✓ |
✓ |
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Arria® V |
1–2 per device |
✓ |
✓ |
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Cyclone® V GT |
2 per device |
✓ |
✓ |
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Cyclone® V GX |
1–2 per device |
✓ |
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Stratix® IV |
2–4 per device |
✓ |
✓ |
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Cyclone® IV GX |
1 per device |
✓ |
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Arria® II GZ |
1 per device |
✓ |
✓ |
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Arria® II GX |
1 per device |
✓ |
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