25G Ethernet Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 3/29/2021
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4.1.2. 25 GbE TX PCS

The soft TX PCS implements MII encoding and scrambling. The 66-bit output stream is input to the hard PCS and PMA block.
Figure 11. High Level Block Diagram of the Soft TX PCS

The Hard PCS and PMA blocks are configured in 66:64 bit basic generic 10G PCS mode whose status can be read through Control and Status registers. These blocks use FIFOs in elastic-buffer mode. The PMA operates at 25.78125 Gbps.