Serial Lite IV Intel® Agilex™ FPGA IP Design Example User Guide

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Date 11/01/2021
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1. About the Serial Lite IV Intel® Agilex™ FPGA IP Design Example User Guide

Updated for:
Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Suite 21.3
IP Version 1.3.1

This document describes features, usage guidelines, and functional description of the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP design examples using E-tile transceivers in Intel® Agilex® devices.

Intended Audience

This document is intended for the following users:
  • Design architects to make IP selection during system level design planning phase.
  • Hardware designers when integrating the IP into their system level design.
  • Validation engineers during system level simulation and hardware validation phase.

Related Documents

The following table lists other reference documents that are related to the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP.
Table 1.  Related Documents
Reference Description
Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

This user guide provides IP features, architecture description, steps to generate, and guidelines to design the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP using the E-tile transceivers.

Serial Lite IV Intel® Stratix® 10 Design Example User Guide This document provides features, usage guidelines, and functional descriptions of the Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP design examples in Intel® Stratix® 10 devices.
E-tile Hard IP User Guide: E-tile Hard IP for Ethernet and E-Tile CPRI PHY Intel FPGA IPs

This document describes the features, functionality, and guidelines of the E-Tile Hard IP for Ethernet and E-Tile CPRI PHY Intel® FPGA IP cores in Intel® Stratix® 10 and Intel® Agilex™ devices.

Intel® Agilex™ Device Data Sheet

This document describes the electrical characteristics, switching characteristics, configuration specifications, and timing for Intel® Agilex™ devices.

E-Tile Transceiver PHY User Guide

This document describes the features, functionality, and guidelines for the E-Tile Transceiver PHY in Intel® Stratix® 10 and Intel® Agilex™ devices.

Intel Agilex F-Series Transceiver SoC Development Kit User Guide

This document describes the features, functionality, and guidelines for the Intel® Agilex™ F-Series Transceiver SoC Development Kit.

Serial Lite IV Intel® FPGA IP Release Notes

This document lists the changes made in the IP for a particular release.

Acronyms and Glossary

Table 2.  Acronym List
Acronym Expansion
CW Control Word
RS-FEC Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction
PMA Physical Medium Attachment
TX Transmitter
RX Receiver
PAM4 Pulse-Amplitude Modulation 4-Level
NRZ Non-return-to-zero
PCS Physical Coding Sublayer
MII Media Independent Interface
XGMII 10 Gigabit Media Independent Interface