Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Core

The Serial Lite IV Intel FPGA Intellectual Property (IP) core is suitable for high-bandwidth data communication for chip-to-chip, board-to-board, and backplane applications.

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Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Core

Serial Lite IV IP core incorporates a media access control (MAC), physical coding sublayer (PCS), and physical media attachment (PMA) block. The IP supports data transfer up to 56 Gbps per lane with a maximum of eight PAM4 lanes in a single link or 28 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 16 non-return-to-zero (NRZ) lanes. This protocol offers high bandwidth, low overhead frames, low I/O count, and supports high scalability in both numbers of lanes and speed. The IP is easily reconfigurable with support of a wide range of data rates with Ethernet PCS mode of the E-Tile transceiver and the F-Tile transceiver.

This IP supports two transmission modes:

  • Basic mode—This is a pure streaming mode where data is sent without the start-of-packet, empty cycle, and end-of-packet to increase bandwidth. The IP takes the first valid data as the start of a burst.
  • Full mode—This is the packet mode of data transfer. A burst and sync cycle is sent at the start and at the end of a packet as delimiters.

Features

Feature Description
Data Transfer
  • Supports up to 56 Gbps per lane with a maximum of eight PAM4 lanes in a single link.
  • Supports up to 28 Gbps per lane with a maximum of 16 NRZ lanes.
  • Supports continuous streaming (Basic) or packet (Full) modes.
  • Supports low overhead frame packets.
  • Supports byte granularity transfer for every burst size.
  • Supports user-initiated or automatic lane alignment.
  • Supports programmable alignment period.
PCS
  • Uses hard IP logic that interfaces seamlessly to Intel® Agilex™ and Intel® Stratix® 10 device E-Tile transceivers for soft logic resource reduction.
  • Supports PAM4 modulation mode for 100GBASE-KP4 specification. RS-FEC is always enabled in this modulation mode.
  • Supports NRZ modulation mode with (optional) KR-FEC error detection and correction.
  • Supports 64b/66b encoding decoding.
Error Detection and Handling
  • Supports cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error checking on transmit (TX) and receive (RX) datapaths.
  • Supports RX link error checking.
  • Supports RX PCS error detection.
Interfaces
  • Supports only full duplex packet transfer with independent links.
  • Uses point-to-point interconnect to multiple FPGAs with low transfer latency.
  • Supports user-defined commands.
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IP Quality Metrics

Basics

Year IP was first released

2019

Latest version of the Intel® Quartus® Prime software supported

19.4

Status

Advanced

Deliverables

Customer deliverables include the following:

  • Design file (encrypted source code or post-synthesis netlist)
  • Simulation model for ModelSim*- Intel FPGA Edition
  • Timing and/or layout constraints
  • Documentation with revision control

Y for all

Any additional customer deliverables provided with IP

Testbench and design examples

Parameterization GUI allowing end user to configure IP

Y

IP is enabled for Intel FPGA IP Evaluation Mode Support

Y

Source language

Verilog

Testbench language

Verilog

Software drivers provided

N

Driver OS Support

N

Implementation

User interface

Avalon® Streaming

IP-XACT metadata

N

Verification

Simulators supported

NCSim, ModelSim, VCS/VCSMX

Hardware validated

Intel® Agilex™ FPGA Development Kit, Intel Stratix 10 FPGA Signal Integrity Development Kit

Industry-standard compliance testing performed

N

If Yes, which test(s)?

N/A

If Yes, on which Intel FPGA device(s)?

N/A

If Yes, date performed

N/A

If No, is it planned?

N

Interoperability

IP has undergone interoperability testing

N/A

If yes, on which Intel FPGA device(s)

N/A

Interoperability reports available

N/A
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