R-Tile Avalon® Streaming Intel® FPGA IP for PCI Express* User Guide

ID 683501
Date 4/10/2024
Public
Document Table of Contents

2.2.3.3.1. Deferrable Memory Write (DMWr)

Deferrable Memory Write (DMWr) transactions are a new type of TLP supported by the PCI Specifications. This new feature allows the completer to return an acknowledgement to the requester of the DMWr transaction and provides the completer a mechanism to temporarily refuse the request. For additional details, refer to the Deferrable Memory Write (DMWr) ECN.

In the R-Tile Avalon Streaming Intel FPGA IP for PCIe, the requirements for supporting this Deferrable Memory Write feature are:
  1. During the credit initialization phase between the IP and the Application logic, the Application logic needs to advertise infinite credits for Non-Posted Data (NPD) transactions to the IP. Note that the Application logic can still throttle the Non-Posted traffic with the credits for the Non-Posted Headers (NPH). Refer to Credit Initialization for more details on the procedure required to advertise infinite credits.
  2. With infinite credits being advertised between the R-Tile Avalon Streaming IP and the Application logic, the minimum size of the Application logic Rx buffer for Non-Posted Data (NPD) transactions needs to be equal to the amount of Non-Posted Header (NPH) advertised credits multiplied by 128 bytes.
Note:
DMWr support is only available in Production devices or Engineering Samples with the following OPNs:
  • AGIx027R29AxxxxR2
  • AGIx027R29AxxxxR3
  • AGIx027R29BxxxxR3
  • AGIx023R18AxxxxR0
  • AGIx041R29DxxxxR0
  • AGIx041R29DxxxxR1
  • AGMx039R47AxxR0
For more details on OPN decoding, refer to the Available Options section of the Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs Device Overview.