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

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Date 12/14/2020
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2.2. Design Example Interface Signals

The 25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP testbench is self-contained and does not require you to drive any input signals.

Table 4.   25G Ethernet Intel FPGA IP Hardware Design Example Interface Signals
Signal Direction Comments
clk50 Input Drive at 50 MHz. The intent is to drive this from a 50 Mhz oscillator on the board.
clk_ref Input Drive at 644.53125 MHz.
cpu_resetn Input Resets the IP core. Active low. Drives the global hard reset csr_reset_n to the IP core.
tx_serial Output Transceiver PHY output serial data.
rx_serial Input Transceiver PHY input serial data.
user_led[7:0] Output Status signals. The hardware design example connects these bits to drive LEDs on the target board. Individual bits reflect the following signal values and clock behavior:
  • [0]: Main reset signal to IP core
  • [1]: Divided version of clk_ref
  • [2]: Divided version of clk50
  • [3]: Divided version of 100 MHz status clock
  • [4]: tx_lanes_stable
  • [5]: rx_block_lock
  • [6]: rx_am_lock
  • [7]: rx_pcs_ready