P-Tile PCIe* Hard IP

P-Tile is an FPGA companion tile available on Stratix® 10 DX and Agilex™ 7 FPGA F-Series device that natively supports PCIe* configurations up to 4.0 x16 in Endpoint (EP), Root Port (RP), and Transaction Layer (TL) Bypass Modes.

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P-Tile PCIe* Hard IP

P-Tile Link Up Video

Watch the demo of Stratix® 10 DX device featuring P-Tile link up with Intel® Xeon server.

Standards & Specifications Compliance

  • PCIe Base Specification Revision 4.0
  • Single Root I/O Virtualization and Sharing Specification Rev. 1.1
  • PHY Interface for PCIe Architectures, Version 4.0
  • Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.0
  • P-Tile PCIe Hard IP successfully passed PCI-SIG Compliance testing. Results posted on PCI-SIG Integrators list.

Features

  • Complete protocol stack including the transaction, data link, and physical layers implemented as Hard IP
  • PIPE mode support
  • Natively supports PCIe* 4.0/3.0 configurations with support for 2.0/1.0 configurations support via link down-training
  • Port Bifurcation capabilities: four x4 root ports, two x8 endpoints
  • Support TL-Bypass mode in both upstream and downstream modes
  • Up to 512B Maximum Payload Size (MPS)
  • Up to 4096-byte (4 KB) Maximum Read Request Size (MRRS)
  • Separate reference clock with independent spread spectrum Clocking (SRIS)
  • Separate reference clock with no spread spectrum clocking (SRNS)
  • Common reference clock architecture
  • Independent PERST to handle two reset operations (x8x8 EP and x8x8 TL Bypass)
  • Advanced Error Reporting (PF only)
  • Support for D0 and D3 PCIe power states
  • Lane margining at receiver
  • Retimers presence detection
  • Supports autonomous Hard IP mode that allows the PCIe Hard IP to communicate with the Host before the FPGA configuration and entry into user mode are complete
  • FPGA core Configuration via PCIe link (CVP Init and CVP Update) and Partial Reconfiguration (PR) over PCIe link

Multifunction and Virtualization Features

  • SR-IOV support (8 PFs, 2K VFs per each Endpoint)
  • VirtIO support via configuration intercept interface
  • Scalable I/O and Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support
  • Access Control Service (ACS)
  • Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
  • Function Level Reset (FLR)
  • Suppot for TLP Processing Hint (TPH)
  • Address Translation Services (ATS)
  • Process Address Space ID (PasID)

User Interface Features

  • Avalon® Streaming Interface (Avalon-ST)
  • User packet interface with separate header, data, and prefix
  • Dual segmented user packet interface with the ability to handle up to two TLPs in any given cycle (x16 core only)
  • Extended Tag Support
  • 10-bit Tag Support (maximum of 768 outstanding tags (x16) / 512 outstanding tags (x4/x8) at any given time, for all functions combined)

Complementary IPs

Driver Support

IP Debug Features

  • Debug toolkit features:
  • Protocol and link status information
  • Basic and advanced debugging capabilities including PMA register access and Eye Viewing capability

IP Status

 

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