Interlaken (2nd Generation) Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 12/04/2023
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5.6. Interlaken Link and Miscellaneous Signals

Table 33.  SERDES PinsIn PMA4 mode, the Interlaken IP uses only six even channels out of twelve E-tile channels. The other six odd channels cannot be used. For more information on transceiver channels, refer to the E-tile Transceiver PHY User Guide.
Signal Name Feature Support Width (Bits) I/O Direction Description
rx_pin ILK and ILA Number of lanes Input Each bit represents the differential pair on an RX Interlaken lane.
tx_pin Number of lanes Output Each bit represents the differential pair on a TX Interlaken lane.
rx_pin_n Number of lanes Input For the PAM4 loopback example design, rx_pin_n receives data from tx_pin_n.
tx_pin_n Number of lanes Output For the PAM4 loopback example design, tx_pin_n drives data to rx_pin_n.
Table 34.  Real-Time Transmitter Status Signals
Signal Name 15 Feature Support Width (Bits) I/O Direction Description
tx_lanes_aligned ILK and ILA 1 Output Indicates whether all of the transmitter lanes are aligned and are ready to send traffic.
itx_overflow ILK only 1 Output An error flag indicating that the Transmit buffer is currently overflowing. This signal is asserted for the duration of the overflow condition. It is asserted in the first clock cycle in which the overflow occurs, and remains asserted until the Transmit buffer pointers indicate that no overflow condition exists.
itx_underflow ILK only 1 Output An error flag indicating that the Transmit buffer is currently underflowed. In normal operation, this signal may be asserted temporarily immediately after the Interlaken IP core comes out of reset.
Table 35.  Real-Time Receiver Status Signals
Signal Name 16 Feature Support Width (Bits) I/O Direction Description
rx_lanes_aligned ILK and ILA 1 Output Indicates whether all of the receiver lanes are aligned and are ready to receive traffic.
sync_locked ILK and ILA Number of lanes Output Receive lane has locked on the remote transmitter meta Frame. These signals are level signals: all bits are expected to stay high unless a problem occurs on the serial line.
word_locked ILK and ILA Number of lanes Output Receive lane has identified the 67-bit word boundaries in the serial stream. These signals are level signals: all bits are expected to stay high unless a problem occurs on the serial line.
crc24_err ILK and ILA 1 Output A CRC24 error flag covering both control word and data word. You can use this signal to count the number of CRC24 errors. This signal is asserted as a single cycle wide pulse in E-tile IP core variations and as a multi-cycle wide pulse in L-tile/H-tile IP core variations.
crc32_err ILK and ILA Number of lanes Output An error flag indicating diagnostic CRC32 failures per lane. This signal is asserted as a single cycle wide pulse in E-tile IP core variations and as a multi-cycle wide pulse in L-tile/H-tile IP core variations.
irx_overflow ILK only 0 Output This signal is tied to 0 and it is not used.
rdc_overflow ILK only 0 Output This signal is tied to 0 and it is not used.
rg_overflow ILK only 1 Output An error flag indicating that the Reassembly FIFO is currently overflowed. The Reassembly FIFO is the receiver FIFO that feeds directly to the user data interface.
rxfifo_fill_ level ILK only RXFIFO_ADDR_ WIDTH Output The fill level of the Reassembly FIFO, in units of 64-bit words. The width of this signal is the value of the RXFIFO_ADDR_WIDTH parameter, which is 12 by default. You can use this signal to monitor when the RX Reassembly FIFO is empty.
sop_cntr_inc ILK only 1 Output A pulse indicating that the IP core receiver user data interface received a start-of- packet (SOP). You can use this signal to increment a count of SOPs the application observes on the receive interface.
eop_cntr_inc ILK only 1 Output A pulse indicating that the IP core receiver user data interface received an end-of-packet (EOP). You can use this signal to increment a count of EOPs the application observes on the receive interface.
sop_cntr_inc1 ILK only   Output A pulse indicating that the IP core receiver user data interface received a start-of- packet (SOP) on second segment chunk. You can use this signal to increment a count of SOPs the application observes on the receive interface.

This signal is only available in muti-segment mode of IP core variations.

eop_cntr_inc1 ILK only   Output A pulse indicating that the IP core receiver user data interface received an end-of-packet (EOP) on second segment chunk. You can use this signal to increment a count of EOPs the application observes on the receive interface.

This signal is only available in muti-segment mode of IP core variations.

nad_cntr_inc ILK only 0 Output This signal is tied to 0 and it is not used.
rx_xcoder_uncor_feccw ILK and ILA [XCODER_LANES-1:0]] Output Indicates uncorrectable FEC code word. This signal is also accessible through status register and may not align with the irx_data signal.

This signal is only available in PAM4 mode of E-tile device variations.

Table 36.  Burst Control SettingsThese signals are not available in Interlaken Look-aside mode.
Signal Name Width (Bits) I/O Direction Description
burst_max_in 4 Input Encodes the BurstMax parameter for the IP core. The actual value of the BurstMax parameter must be a multiple of 64 bytes. While traffic is present, this input signal should remain static. However, when no traffic is present, you can modify the value of the burst_ max_in signal to modify the BurstMax value of the IP core. The IP core supports the following valid values for this signal:
  • 4'b0010: 128 bytes
  • 4'b0100: 256 bytes
  • 4'b1000: 512 bytes17
burst_short_in 4 Input Encodes the BurstShort parameter for the IP core. The IP core supports the following valid value for this parameter:
  • 4'b0001: 32 bytes
  • 4'b0010: 64 bytes
In general, the presence of the BurstMin parameter makes the BurstShort parameter obsolete.
burst_min_in 4 Input Encodes the BurstMin parameter for the IP core. The IP core supports the following valid values for this signal:
  • 4'b0000: Disable optional enhanced scheduling. If you disable enhanced scheduling, performance is non-optimal.
  • 4'b0001: 32 bytes18
  • 4'b0010: 64 bytes
  • 4'b0100: 128 bytes
The BurstMin parameter should have a value that is less than or equal to half of the value of the BurstMax parameter.

Intel® recommends that you modify the value of this input signal only when no traffic is present on the TX user data interface. You do not need to reset the IP core.

Table 37.  ECC Status SignalsThese signals are not available in Interlaken Look-aside mode.
Signal Name Feature Support Width (Bits) I/O Direction Description
itx_eccstatus ILK only 2 Output Indicates the TX ECC status.
  • Bit 1: Correctable error status
  • Bit 0: Uncorrectable error status
irx_eccstatus ILK only 2 Output Indicates the RX ECC status.
  • Bit 1: Correctable error status
  • Bit 0: Uncorrectable error status
15 Synchronous with tx_usr_clk.
16 Synchronous with rx_usr_clk.
17 This value is not supported for number of words=4.
18 This value is not supported for number of words= 8 and number of words= 16 .